Statutory redundancy pay calculator
Enter your age at redundancy, your full years of service and your weekly pay before tax. The calculator shows the statutory redundancy pay due for a redundancy on or after 6 April 2026, with the number of weeks' pay counted for each age band.
What the calculator assumes
- You were made redundant on or after 6 April 2026, so the current caps apply.
- Your years of service are complete years of continuous work for the same employer.
- Your weekly pay is the average you earned each week over the twelve weeks before the day you got your redundancy notice.
- Each year of service was worked at the age you were during it, counting back from your age at redundancy.
- The result is the statutory minimum. Any extra amount in your contract is left out.
How it is worked out
You need at least two years of service with your current employer to get statutory redundancy pay. Below that, the calculator shows that none is due. The rule is on the gov.uk redundancy pay page, which is also the source for the other rules below.
The pay for each full year of service depends on your age during that year:
- half a week's pay for each year you were under twenty-two
- one week's pay for each year you were twenty-two or older and under forty-one
- one and a half weeks' pay for each year you were forty-one or older
Only the most recent twenty years count. If you have worked longer than that, the earlier years add nothing.
The calculator does not know your date of birth, so it counts back from your age at redundancy one year at a time. It treats your most recent year of service as worked at one year younger than your age at redundancy, the year before that at two years younger, and so on. For a year that crosses your twenty-second or forty-first birthday, a sum from exact dates may put that year in a different band.
Your weekly pay is capped at £751. If you earn more, the calculator uses the cap. It then multiplies the total number of weeks by that weekly pay. The most anyone can get is £22,530, which is twenty years at the highest age band on the capped weekly pay.
The result panel lists the weeks earned in each age band, so you can see which years add the most.
Who is not covered
Statutory redundancy pay is for employees. Self-employed people cannot get it, and the law excludes some other groups of workers. The gov.uk redundancy pay page lists who is not entitled and explains how an offer of other work can affect the payment.
The figures on this page are the gov.uk ones for England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has its own rules, which nidirect publishes.
Spotted a mistake?
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