Statutory redundancy pay calculator
Work out the statutory minimum redundancy payment anywhere in the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland has its own, higher figures, so the calculator asks where you work.
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How the calculation works
Statutory redundancy pay is built from three things and nothing else: your age across each year of service, how many full years you served, and your weekly pay before tax. There is no discretion in it.
For each full year of service you receive:
| Age during that year of service | Weeks' pay for that year |
|---|---|
| Under 22 | 0.5 |
| 22 to 40 | 1 |
| 41 and over | 1.5 |
Count back from the date employment ends. Only the last twenty years of service count, and the weekly pay used is capped, so the two limits work together to put a ceiling on the payment.
Weekly pay means average gross weekly pay over the twelve weeks before the day notice was given. Where pay varies, it is the average of those twelve weeks. Overtime counts if the contract obliges the employer to provide it and you to work it.
2026/27 rates and limits
| England, Scotland and Wales | Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly pay cap, from 6th April 2026 | £751.00 | £783.00 |
| Maximum statutory payment | £22,530.00 | £23,490.00 |
| Years of service counted | 20 | 20 |
| Minimum service to qualify | 2 years | 2 years |
Northern Ireland runs its own redundancy scheme and its figures are genuinely different, not merely administered separately. Choose Northern Ireland at the top of the calculator and the correct cap and maximum are applied. The age bands and the twenty-year limit are the same in all four nations.
Worked examples
Aged 54, twelve years' service, £820 a week, in Scotland. Weekly pay is above the cap, so £751.00 is used. All twelve years were served after the age of 41, so each is worth one and a half weeks: eighteen weeks in total. Eighteen multiplied by £751.00 is £13,518.00.
Aged 30, six years' service, £480 a week, in England. Weekly pay is below the cap, so the actual figure is used. All six years fall in the 22 to 40 band, so each is worth one week: six weeks. Six multiplied by £480.00 is £2,880.00.
Aged 45, twenty-six years' service, £900 a week, in Northern Ireland. Only the last twenty years count. Sixteen of those were served between the ages of 22 and 40, at one week each, and four from the age of 41, at one and a half weeks each, giving sixteen weeks plus six weeks, or twenty-two weeks. Weekly pay is capped at £783.00, so twenty-two multiplied by £783.00 is £17,226.00, which is below the Northern Ireland maximum of £23,490.00 and is therefore paid in full.
Important rules and exceptions
It is a floor, not a ceiling. A great many contracts and collective agreements provide enhanced redundancy pay well above the statutory minimum. Read the contract and the staff handbook before you accept any figure.
Two years' continuous service is required. Service with an associated employer, or service that transferred with a business, usually counts. Breaks in service do not automatically reset the clock.
You may lose the right to it. Turning down a suitable offer of alternative employment without good reason, or being dismissed for misconduct rather than redundancy, can remove the entitlement.
Tax. The first £30,000.00 of a genuine redundancy payment is normally free of income tax and National Insurance. Anything above £30,000.00 is taxable, and so is anything that is really pay in another guise, notably payment in lieu of notice.
Time limits. There is a six-month time limit from the date employment ends for bringing a claim about statutory redundancy pay, and the ordinary unfair dismissal limit is three months less one day. Acas offers free advice and early conciliation before any claim is made.
What this calculator does not do. It does not work out notice pay, holiday accrued and untaken, or any enhanced contractual scheme. Use the notice period calculator and the holiday entitlement calculator for those.
Sources, and when we checked them
Figures checked against GOV.UK on 18th September 2026. Great Britain caps and the age bands: GOV.UK, redundancy pay. Northern Ireland caps: nibusinessinfo.co.uk. Every statutory figure this site uses is listed with its date and source on the rates page.
A fuller explanation of where the scheme comes from, how the twelve-week averaging works and what happens when an employer cannot pay sits in the guide to statutory redundancy pay for 2026/27.