Sick Pay Calculator
Estimate your Statutory Sick Pay for a period off work.
Estimated SSP payment
£123.25
- Weekly SSP rate
- £123.25
- Daily qualifying-day rate
- £24.65
- Payable qualifying days
- 5 days
Estimate for absences beginning on or after 6 April 2026. Eligibility and transitional cases can differ.
v1.1 · Reviewed September 2026
How this is worked out
The weekly rate is the lower of £123.25 and 80% of your average weekly earnings. That is divided by your qualifying days in a week to give a daily rate, which is multiplied by the qualifying days you missed.
Worked example
- Average weekly earnings £600
- 6 qualifying days a week
- 4 days missed
£123.25 ÷ 6 = £20.5417 a day, × 4
£82.17
Assumptions and limits
- For absences beginning on or after 6 April 2026, when waiting days were removed, so every qualifying day missed is paid.
- Low earners are paid 80% of average weekly earnings instead of the standard rate.
- Payment is limited to 28 weeks of qualifying days.
- Eligibility itself is not tested here, and this figure is before tax and National Insurance.
- Rounding note: HMRC's payment table gives £82.17 for four payable days out of six, while example 2 in the manual calculation guidance shows £82.16 for the same pattern, because it rounds the daily rate before multiplying. This calculator follows the table and keeps the daily rate unrounded, rounding only the final amount. Your employer's payroll may show the penny differently.