{"slug":"uk-statutory-redundancy-pay","name":"UK Redundancy Pay Calculator — statutory entitlement 2026","category":"earn","tags":["income","employment","planning"],"aliases":["redundancy","redundancy pay","laid off uk","statutory redundancy","redundancy calculator","statutory redundancy payment calculator"],"region":"GB","tagline":"How much redundancy pay you’re owed — from your age, your years of service and your weekly pay, on the 2026 limits.","endpoint":"https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/uk-statutory-redundancy-pay","page":"https://xearno.tools/t/uk-statutory-redundancy-pay","description":"Redundancy pay in the UK has a formula, and it is stranger than most people expect. Your years of service are weighted by how old you were during each of them — a year past 41 is worth a week and a half’s pay, a year in your twenties or thirties is worth one, a year before 22 is worth half. Only your last twenty count. And the weekly pay that feeds the formula is capped at £751 however much you actually earn, with £22,530 the ceiling on the whole payment. That cap moves every April, which is why a general-purpose AI will usually quote you last year’s. The age-weighting runs backwards from your leaving date and drops any year straddling a birthday into the lower band — a small fiddly rule, easy to state and easy to get wrong. Northern Ireland sets its own higher limits; those are here too.","inputSchema":{"type":"object","properties":{"age":{"description":"Your age at the dismissal (relevant) date The multiplier depends on your age DURING each backward-counted year of service, not just today’s age — this is the table walk general AI botches. Use your age on the date your employment ends.","type":"number","minimum":16,"maximum":100,"default":45},"serviceYears":{"description":"Complete years of continuous service Only FULL years count — 9 years 11 months is 9. Under 2 years there is no statutory entitlement; over 20 only the most recent 20 count.","type":"number","minimum":0,"maximum":60,"default":10},"weeklyPay":{"description":"Gross weekly pay (£) Before tax. If your pay varies, use the average over the 12 weeks before your notice day. Capped at £751 — high earners all get the same statutory figure.","type":"number","minimum":0,"default":600},"dismissalDate":{"description":"When does (did) your employment end? Picks the statutory limits: £751 weekly / £22,530 max from 6 April 2026, £719 / £21,570 before. The limits re-uprate every April.","type":"string","enum":["on-after-6-apr-2026","before-6-apr-2026"],"default":"on-after-6-apr-2026"},"nation":{"description":"Where do you work? Northern Ireland sets its own limits — currently HIGHER than Great Britain’s: £783 weekly, £23,490 maximum.","type":"string","enum":["gb","ni"],"default":"gb"}},"required":[],"additionalProperties":false},"methodology":["The multiplier (ERA 1996 s.162): count up to 20 complete years of continuous service, reckoning BACKWARD from the relevant (dismissal) date. Each backward year earns 1.5 weeks’ pay if the employee was aged 41 or over throughout it, 1.0 week if aged 22–40, and 0.5 weeks below 22. A year straddling the 22nd or 41st birthday falls to the LOWER band — the statutory wording requires the employee to be \"not below\" the band age for the whole year. Maximum multiplier: 30 weeks (20 years × 1.5).","This model uses whole ages: for backward year i, age-at-year-start = floor(age − i). The statutory test uses your exact age during each year, so a birthday mid-year can shift one year between bands; the gov.uk calculator asks the same integer inputs and shares this simplification.","Limits: weekly pay is capped and the total is capped. Great Britain from 6 April 2026: £751/week, £22,530 maximum (SI 2026/310, the annual uprating order). Dismissals before 6 April 2026: £719 / £21,570. The caps re-uprate every April — always check the year that matches your dismissal date.","Northern Ireland has its own employment law and sets separate, currently higher limits: £783/week and £23,490 maximum. The NI figures’ effective date is secondary-sourced (NI upratings are published separately by the Department for the Economy) — verify against the current NI order if your dismissal is close to an April boundary.","Eligibility: you must be an employee with at least 2 complete years of continuous service and be dismissed by reason of redundancy. Below 2 years the statutory entitlement is exactly £0. Weekly pay is gross pay before tax; if pay varies, average the 12 weeks before the day notice was given.","Tax: statutory redundancy pay is tax-free. It counts toward the £30,000 termination-payment exemption, which matters only if the employer pays more on top (ex-gratia / enhanced redundancy) — the combined total above £30,000 is taxable.","Scope: this is the statutory MINIMUM. Many employers pay enhanced (contractual) redundancy above it. Statutory notice pay (1 week per year of service, capped at 12 weeks) and accrued holiday pay are separate entitlements, not part of this figure. Claims must be made within 6 months of the employment ending."],"usage":"POST https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/uk-statutory-redundancy-pay with a JSON body matching inputSchema."}