Enter the date you were made redundant, where you work, your age, your full years of service and your weekly pay. You get the statutory redundancy pay you are entitled to as a minimum, to the penny, with the workings. It covers employees in England, Scotland and Wales, and in Northern Ireland, which has its own cap. Your contract or your employer’s redundancy scheme may pay more.
Who qualifies
You are normally entitled to statutory redundancy pay if you are an employee and have worked for your employer for 2 years or more. You are not entitled if your employer offers to keep you on, or offers you suitable alternative work that you refuse without good reason. Being dismissed for misconduct does not count as redundancy.
Count your years and your age
Only full years count: 3 years and 9 months count as 3. Years are counted back from the date your job ends, and only the last 20 count. Each year is worth half a week’s pay if you were under 22, one week’s pay if you were 22 to 40, and one and a half weeks’ pay if you were 41 or older. A year counts at the higher rate only if you were that age for all of it, so at 41 with 2 years’ service you get 2 weeks, and at 42, 2.5 weeks.
Your weekly pay and the cap
Use your weekly pay before tax and other deductions: the average you earned per week over the 12 weeks before the day you got your redundancy notice. For redundancies on or after 6 April 2026 it is capped at £751 a week in England, Scotland and Wales and at £783 in Northern Ireland; from 6 April 2025 to 5 April 2026 the caps were £719 and £749. The calculator picks the cap from the date you enter.
Rounding and using the result
The result is rounded to the nearest penny, with halves rounded up. Copy the workings in one click, export them as a CSV file or save them to Priostack.
Redundancy pay = weeks × week’s pay, the week’s pay being capped.
Weeks = 1.5 for each full year at 41 or over + 1 for each full year at 22 to 40 + 0.5 for each full year under 22, counting back no more than 20 years.
Maximum from 6 April 2026: 30 weeks × £751 = £22,530 (£23,490 in Northern Ireland).
Example: aged 45, 12 years’ service, £800 a week
This is the answer GOV.UK’s calculator gives for a redundancy on 11 November 2026. Counting back, your 4 most recent years were at 41 or over (4 × 1.5 = 6 weeks) and the 8 before them at 22 to 40 (8 weeks): 14 weeks in all. Your £800 is capped at £751, so you get 14 × £751.00 = £10,514.00, or 14 × £783.00 = £10,962.00 in Northern Ireland.
