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Notice pay calculator

Your notice period from your length of service and your contract, and the pay due for notice you did not work. Resigning instead? See the notice you must give and your earliest last day.

This site does not give legal advice. The figures come from your own answers. All amounts are gross (before tax and National Insurance).

Your situation
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Bank holidays and some time limits depend on it. Northern Ireland has its own rules: this site does not cover it yet.

Statutory redundancy pay and statutory notice are for employees. Not sure? Acas or Citizens Advice can help you check.

Your job and its end

Needed if you worked all or part of your notice, or were on garden leave.

Notice

The day you received the notice, not the date written on the letter if it reached you later.

Leave empty if your contract says nothing: the statutory minimum applies.

As on your payslip, for the period chosen below.

Add up your last 12 weekly payslips, or the equivalent.

Your resignation

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Choose your situation and enter your dates. Your notice and any notice pay due appear here.

This is a calculation based on the rules published on gov.uk. It is not legal advice.

Notice: the statutory minimum and your contract

An employer must give at least 1 week's notice after one month of service, then 1 week per complete year from 2 years, up to 12 weeks (Employment Rights Act 1996, section 86). Your contract can give more, never less: the longer notice applies. No notice is due after a dismissal for gross misconduct.

If you did not work your notice and were not paid for it, the notice pay due is the notice not given, at your week's pay. Pay in lieu of notice (PILON) is taxable and subject to National Insurance.

An employee who resigns after one month must give at least 1 week's notice, or more if the contract says so. Your notice starts when your employer receives your letter.

Example

Started on 1 February 2019, notice received on 1 July 2026, neither worked nor paid, contract silent, £600 a week: 7 complete years, so 7 weeks' notice, £4,200.00.