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Methodology

Great Britain Statutory Redundancy Notice Pay methodology

Calculate Great Britain statutory redundancy-dismissal notice weeks and gross notice pay. Scope: Great Britain statutory redundancy notice, rules checked 27 July 2026. Official GOV.UK redundancy notice-period guidance captured and reviewed 27 July 2026.

Educational only: Work and pay decision support, not tax, legal, financial or career advice.

Privacy: Calculations run locally; Wage101 does not receive your work or pay inputs.

Update policy: Reviewed when formulas or official dependencies change.

Scope: UK work and pay planning using your own assumptions.

1. Formulas and units

Gross statutory notice pay
grossNoticePay = noticeWeeks ร— averageWeeklyPay

Where

averageWeeklyPay
Twelve-week average weekly pay (GBP/week)Source: User assumption
grossNoticePay
Gross statutory notice pay (GBP/notice period)Source: Calculated output
averageWeeklyPay
Average weekly pay used (GBP/week)Source: Calculated output
Statutory notice weeks
noticeWeeks = service under 1 month ? 0 : service under 2 years ? 1 : min(12, floor(continuousServiceMonths รท 12))

Where

continuousServiceMonths
Completed continuous service (months)Source: User assumption
noticeWeeks
Statutory notice weeks (weeks)Source: Calculated output
Average weekly pay used
averageWeeklyPay = entered averageWeeklyPay

Where

averageWeeklyPay
Twelve-week average weekly pay (GBP/week)Source: User assumption
averageWeeklyPay
Average weekly pay used (GBP/week)Source: Calculated output

Money inputs and outputs use GBP. Pay, time, benefits and work-related costs use the units stated beside each input.

2. Worked example

Input assumptions

A confirmed Great Britain statutory redundancy dismissal after 84 months with ยฃ800 average weekly pay.

Calculation and outputs

Example

A confirmed Great Britain statutory redundancy dismissal after 84 months with ยฃ800 average weekly pay.

Gross statutory notice pay
5,600.00 currency units
Statutory notice weeks
7
Average weekly pay used
800.00 currency units

Statutory notice weeks and gross notice pay remain separate.

Interpretation

Use the result only for bounded Great Britain statutory redundancy-dismissal notice.

3. Validation and boundary checks

  • The worked example uses the same shared-work-logic engine as the interactive planner.
  • Unsupported eligibility, policy branches and out-of-range assumptions fail closed.
  • Result cards, trace, CSV, PDF and methodology bind to named engine result fields.

4. Assumptions and source classification

  • Great Britain jurisdiction and statutory redundancy-dismissal coverage are confirmed.
  • The entered average weekly pay is the correct twelve-week average.

Official dependencies used by this calculator are captured in the Wage101 evidence register and version-acknowledged in this page history. User-entered work and pay assumptions remain separate from those official inputs.

5. Limitations

  • Northern Ireland, resignation and contractual notice exceeding the statutory minimum are excluded.
  • PILON/PENP tax treatment, sickness or leave adjustments, bonuses, commission and non-cash benefits are excluded.

This is educational decision support, not personalised tax, legal, financial or career advice. Check how the rules that apply in United Kingdom treat your work and pay circumstances, and seek qualified advice where appropriate.

6. Update and evidence policy

Registered family-level suites test formula invariants and example reconciliation; the release ledger records that coverage without claiming a separate oracle for every line of public copy. Registered official sources block dependent public workflows when their evidence or version acknowledgement is unavailable or invalid. Work and pay inputs remain user-supplied because they vary by person, job and contract.

Change history

  1. : Initial public release of the Great Britain Statutory Redundancy Notice Pay planner and methodology.

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