Statutory Sick Pay calculator

Enter your average weekly earnings, the number of days you normally work each week and the number of those days you are off sick. The calculator shows the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) due under the 2026/27 rules and how each part of the sum is reached.

Statutory Sick Pay

£246.50

£123.25 a week for 2 full weeks and 0 days

Your details

Average weekly earnings

Qualifying days a week Days you normally work 1234567

Qualifying days off sick

CalculateReset

How this was worked out

1. Weekly amount: £123.25 (flat rate)
2. Payable days: min(10 − 0 waiting days, 140) = 10
3. Part week: 0 of 5 qualifying days = £0.00
4. Total: (2 × £123.25) + £0.00 = £246.50

What the calculator assumes

• The rules for the 2026/27 tax year, which started on 6 April 2026.
• You are an employee who can get SSP. The calculator does not test eligibility.
• Your qualifying days are the days you normally work. If your pattern varies, your employer agrees which days count.
• All the days you enter fall in one spell of sickness with one employer. Earlier spells that link to this one are not counted.
• The result is the amount before any deductions your employer makes through payroll.
• Sick pay from your employer on top of SSP, sometimes called company sick pay, is left out.

How it is worked out

The weekly rate of SSP is £123.25 or eighty per cent of your average weekly earnings, whichever is lower. The eighty per cent limit is new for 2026/27. Before that, everyone who qualified got the same flat rate. If eighty per cent of your pay comes to more than the flat rate, you get the flat rate. If it comes to less, you get the eighty per cent figure. The calculator rounds that weekly figure to the nearest penny. gov.uk sets out the rule on its what you'll get page and on the rates and thresholds for employers page.

SSP is paid from the first day of sickness. Before April 2026 the first three days were unpaid waiting days. The current gov.uk guidance describes pay from the first day of illness and lists no waiting days, so the calculator counts every qualifying day you enter.

SSP is paid for each qualifying day, which is a day you would normally work. The daily amount is the weekly rate divided by your number of qualifying days in a week. For each full week off sick you get the weekly rate. For a part week, the calculator multiplies the daily amount by the days in that part week and rounds the answer up to the next penny. This matches the daily tables on the employer rates page, which round part weeks up in the same way.

SSP lasts for up to twenty-eight weeks, as the main gov.uk SSP page states. If the days you enter go past that point, the calculator stops counting at twenty-eight weeks of qualifying days and tells you it has done so.

The current gov.uk eligibility list has no minimum earnings test, so the calculator gives a figure for any level of pay. On low earnings the eighty per cent rule makes that figure small.

Who is not covered

SSP is for employees. Self-employed people cannot get it. You also need to have done some work for your employer and to have been ill for at least one full working day. The gov.uk eligibility page has the full list of conditions, including the cases where SSP is not due.

The calculator also leaves out anything your employer pays under its own sick pay scheme. Your contract or staff handbook gives those terms.

Spotted a mistake?

Email [email protected]. Tell us what you entered and what you expected to see. Fixed errors are listed on the corrections page.