About

When a job ends in Australia, the last payslip is rarely one number. It bundles wages owed, notice or pay in lieu, redundancy pay, untaken annual leave, sometimes leave loading and long service leave, and then the ATO takes its share at rates that differ for each of those pieces. Most online tools handle redundancy alone. This one adds up the whole final pay for the state you worked in, before and after tax.

What the calculator adds up, line by line

• Notice. The period comes from the table in section 117 of the Fair Work Act 2009, with one extra week for an employee over 45 who has at least 2 years of service. Nothing is added on a resignation.
• Redundancy pay. The National Employment Standards scale, from 4 weeks after one year up to 16 weeks between 9 and 10 years, then 12 weeks from 10 years. It drops to zero if you tick the small business box (fewer than 15 employees).
• Annual leave. Untaken days are paid at your base daily rate (weekly pay divided by five), with an optional 17.5% loading for awards and agreements that provide it.
• Long service leave. The accrual rate, the pro-rata threshold and the termination reasons that unlock a payout are read from the Act of the state or territory you select, so NSW, Victoria and the Northern Territory can give three different answers for the same service.
• Tax. On a genuine redundancy, the tax-free part is $13,598 plus $6,801 per completed year of service (2026–27 figures); the excess is an employment termination payment taxed at 17% or 32% up to the cap and 47% above it, and untaken leave is taxed at 32%. Outside a genuine redundancy, leave is taxed at your marginal rate, including the 2% Medicare levy and the low income tax offset.

Where the rules live in the code

All of these thresholds sit in a single dated data file for the 2026–27 financial year, valid from 2026-07-01 to 2027-06-30, which also stores the link to each Fair Work, ATO and state government page it was taken from. The engine reads nothing else. Its behaviour is pinned by a suite of worked examples, for instance the Northern Territory rule under which 12 years of service pays the completed 10-year period, 13 weeks, rather than 15.6. The details and the known gaps are written up in the methodology.

The publisher

Name

Radif Partners, an independent publisher of online calculators

Based in

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Not

a law firm, a registered tax agent, or a body connected with the Fair Work Ombudsman, the Fair Work Commission or the ATO

A result here tells you what the minimum statutory rules produce for the figures you entered. Your modern award, enterprise agreement or contract may give you more, and a disagreement about what you are owed is settled with your employer or, failing that, in court, with help available from the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Money

Using the calculator costs nothing. Some pages contain reserved spaces for advertising, placed below the calculator and never above it; no one pays to influence a result or a recommendation.

Getting in touch

If a state threshold or an ATO rate looks out of date, email contact@finalpayau.com. The privacy policy and terms set out the rest.

Rates 2026–27, last updated 1 October 2026.