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Statutory redundancy calculator (Ireland)

Your statutory redundancy lump sum from your dates and your weekly pay: 2 weeks’ pay for each year of service, plus 1 week, with the €600 weekly limit. With the days not counted, and the date your written claim must reach your employer.

This site does not give legal advice. This calculator applies the general rules to your own answers; it does not tell you what applies to your situation. All amounts are gross.

Your employment

This tool calculates your annual leave, public holidays and time limits for this situation. Other amounts follow rules it does not cover.

The day your employment actually ended, even if you were paid in lieu of notice.

Notice

Leave it empty if your employment ended without notice.

Leave it empty if your contract says nothing or you do not know.

For statutory redundancy

On your payslip. Most employees are Class A.

Used only to count your service from your 16th birthday. Never printed.

Absences in the last 3 years (lay-off, strike, long illness)

Only these absences reduce your service. Maternity, paternity, parental or carer’s leave and other authorised absences count as service: no need to enter them.

Your pay
Does your pay change from week to week (hours or commission)?

Before tax, for your normal hours, with regular bonuses, without overtime.

Without overtime.

Without overtime. Used for redundancy.

Regular overtime counts for redundancy.

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Enter how your employment ended, your dates and your pay. Your statutory lump sum and the calculation show here.

Calculation of the statutory minimum from your answers. It is not an opinion on your situation. Check your contract; for advice, ask Citizens Information, a trade union or a solicitor.

How statutory redundancy is calculated in Ireland

Statutory redundancy is due if your job no longer exists (or your fixed-term contract was not renewed) and you have at least 104 weeks of continuous employment with the employer, in insurable employment (Redundancy Payments Act 1967, s. 7). It is 2 weeks’ pay for each year of service, plus 1 week, with your weekly pay limited to €600.

Partial years count: your service is counted in days, divided by 365 and rounded to 2 decimals. In the 3 years before the end of your employment, days of lay-off and strike are not counted, nor illness beyond 26 consecutive weeks. If you were paid in lieu of notice, the date used is the day your notice would have ended.

Example

Start on 15 March 2019, end on 23 October 2026, €850 a week: 2,780 days, 7.62 years, 16.24 weeks × €600 = €9,744.00 (without the limit, €13,804.00).

The written claim to your employer must arrive within 52 weeks of the end of your employment (RPA s. 24(1)). The final pay check compares every amount due with what you received.