Australia · National Employment Standards baseline

How much notice or redundancy pay could apply?

Estimate the standard NES minimum notice period and redundancy-pay table using your continuous service. This deliberately stops short of a confident dollar result when an exclusion, small-business rule or industry-specific scheme may change the answer.

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Standard NES baseline

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Completed years of continuous serviceUse service with this employer. Extra completed monthsEnter 0–11 months after the completed years. Your age when notice is givenEmployees over 45 with at least 2 years' service get an extra NES notice week. Estimated full weekly pay for noticeFor an indicative payment-in-lieu amount. Fair Work says full pay can include bonuses, loadings, allowances, overtime and penalty rates.$ Base weekly pay for ordinary hoursFor redundancy only. Do not add bonuses, loadings, allowances, overtime or penalties.$

The job is ending because the position is genuinely redundant / employer is insolventTurn this off if you only want the notice estimate. Casual employeeCasuals are generally excluded from standard NES notice and most NES redundancy pay. Set-period, fixed-term or seasonal arrangement ending as agreedStandard NES notice/redundancy exclusions can apply. Dismissal for serious misconductStandard NES notice and redundancy exclusions can apply. ApprenticeApprentices are generally excluded from NES redundancy pay; notice rules can differ depending on the arrangement. Employer has fewer than 15 employeesMost small-business employees do not get standard NES redundancy pay, but some awards or agreements have different schemes. Daily-hire / special training / other special notice arrangement may applyUse this when the standard NES notice table may not be the right rule. Award, agreement or industry-specific redundancy scheme may applySome schemes override the standard table or small-business exception.

Standard NES notice baseline0 weeks

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Standard NES redundancy baseline0 weeks

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Important: this models the standard NES tables only. Awards, enterprise agreements, employment contracts, industry-specific redundancy schemes, daily-hire rules and other exceptions can require a different result. It does not calculate annual leave, long-service leave, final wages, tax on termination payments, unfair dismissal rights or whether a redundancy is genuine.

Notice uses full pay

Payment instead of notice is not just base salary

Fair Work says payment in lieu of the minimum notice period must equal what the employee would have been paid if they worked that period. The full pay rate can include incentive payments and bonuses, loadings, monetary allowances, overtime, penalty rates and other separately identifiable amounts.

Fair Work — notice and redundancy fact sheet →

Redundancy uses base pay

The redundancy table uses ordinary-hours base pay

Fair Work's standard NES redundancy amount is based on continuous service and the employee's base rate for ordinary hours. Bonuses, loadings, monetary allowances, overtime and penalty rates are excluded from that base-rate definition.

Fair Work — Notice & Redundancy Calculator →

Small business & special schemes

Do not assume “under 15 employees” always means zero

Most employees of a small-business employer are excluded from the standard NES redundancy entitlement. Fair Work also warns that an award or enterprise agreement can contain different redundancy provisions, including industry-specific schemes, so this calculator switches to “check required” instead of asserting zero.