Redundancy calculator

Three weeks per completed year, plus 0.25 weeks per completed month in a partial year. Add two weeks if aged 45 or over on the notice date. The total is at least 14 and at most 52 weeks.

20 weeks if under 45, or 22 weeks if aged 45 or over, plus three weeks for every completed year of service (service component capped at 52 weeks). Overall maximum: 74 weeks. This planner assesses academic age at the final employment date; confirm the assessment date with HR.

This planner assumes employment ends two calendar months after the notice date, with month-end dates clamped to the last valid day. Clause 1.49 provides eight weeks’ notice. Early separation pays the remaining notice balance and assesses redundancy pay at the final employment date. Clauses 2.21.4 and 3.26.4 include eligible allowances and loadings in redundancy salary, excluding additional hours and super. Weekly pay follows the supplied payroll workbook: annual salary ÷ (365.25 ÷ 14), rounded up to cents per fortnight, then divided by two. This also follows the salary conversion in proposed EA clauses 2.2.4 and 3.2.3. Service includes the departure day. The 52-week cap is applied in weeks under the proposed EA; the older payroll workbook uses annual salary as its cash cap, which can differ slightly. Leave uses the entered balance and base hourly rate; loading must be confirmed separately. Tax estimates follow ATO withholding schedules 7 and 11 for Australian residents with a TFN and qualifying genuine redundancy; later-year indexed thresholds are explicitly provisional.

Standard continuing professional and academic employees only. Fixed-term, casual and continuing research-contingent arrangements are outside this calculator. Alternative-position rules can exclude redundancy pay. Service breaks, unpaid leave, previous FTE changes, special salary arrangements and other entitlements need payroll review.

Status checked 29 October 2026: the 27 October agreement is proposed and subject to voting and Fair Work Commission approval. This calculator models that supplied document, rather than determining current legal entitlements. Some cross-references and numbering in the supplied draft appear inconsistent; the substantive redundancy provisions used here are 2.21 and 3.26.