Türkiye Severance and Notice Pay Calculator

How to use

1. Enter the Start date of the employment.
2. Enter your last working day as the End date: the exit date reported to SGK. The start day and the end day both count; service must be at least one year. The ceiling and the tax tariff of this date apply.
3. Enter your gross wage as the Last monthly gross wage, in TRY.
4. Enter the Regular monthly benefits: the monthly total of meals, transport, a twelfth of the yearly bonus and other regular payments. Leave 0 if there are none.
5. Keep Notice pay on “Yes” when the employer ended the job without the notice period. Choose “No” when notice was given, or on retirement or a resignation for just cause.
6. Under More options, enter the Cumulative tax base of the year from your last payslip or leave it empty.
7. Press Calculate.

Formula

• Service = years + months/12 + days/365
• Wage used = min(gross wage + benefits; ceiling)
• Gross severance pay = wage used × service
• Net severance pay = gross severance pay − (gross severance pay × 7.59 per mille − stamp exemption left)
• Gross notice pay = (gross wage + benefits) / 30 × notice days
• Net notice pay = gross notice pay − income tax − stamp duty
• Income tax = tax(cumulative base + gross notice pay) − tax(cumulative base) − exemption left
• Total net pay = net severance pay + net notice pay

Years, months and days are the full years from the start day to the last working day, both days counted, the full months after them and the days after those. Service is counted as the Court of Cassation (Yargıtay) counts it: 20.06.2012–19.06.2013 is one year, 20.03.2012–20.11.2015 is 3 years 8 months 1 day, and 11.09.2020–09.09.2021 is 364 days, not a full year. Service that starts on 29 February completes a year on 28 February. The gross wage is the last monthly gross wage. Benefits are the regular monthly benefits.

The ceiling is the severance pay ceiling in force on the end date; every period since 2005 is on the severance pay ceiling by year page. From 1 July 2026 it is 73,729.87 TRY. Each full year earns 30 days of wage, which is one month of the wage used (Law 1475 art. 14). The ceiling does not apply to notice pay.

The notice period under art. 17 of the Labour Law is 2 weeks for service under 6 months, 4 weeks up to 1.5 years, 6 weeks up to 3 years and 8 weeks beyond. tax(...) is the wage tariff of the end date’s year (Income Tax Law art. 103). Without a base, the calculator takes the same gross wage every month from January (or your start month this year) to the end date, less the employee social security and unemployment premiums, with the first and last month by the days worked. This base is an estimate: if you had a raise, a bonus or a wage from another employer this year, enter the cumulative base from your payslip. Calculators that take a zero base find the right tax only if you had no other wage income this year.

In the exit month the minimum wage exemption applies in full (Income Tax General Communiqué no. 319 art. 6/2). The income tax exemption the month’s wage does not use comes off the notice pay’s tax; the stamp exemption left comes off the notice pay’s stamp duty first, then the severance pay’s (Revenue Administration ruling of 13 December 2023). From 2008 to 2021 the minimum living allowance (AGİ) took the exemption’s place; it applies in full in the exit month (Income Tax Law art. 32), and the part the wage does not use comes off the notice pay’s tax in the same way. The calculator takes the AGİ of a single employee. No Revenue Administration ruling states this directly. From 2005 to 2007 there was no relief.

Worked example

The worked example on this page shows an employment from 1 March 2018 with 31 August 2026 as the last working day. The last gross wage is 70,000 TRY and the benefits 5,000 TRY a month. The total of 75,000 TRY exceeds the ceiling of 73,729.87 TRY on the end date, so the wage used is 73,729.87 TRY. Severance pay for 8 years 6 months is 73,729.87 × 8.5 = 626,703.90 TRY gross; less 4,756.68 TRY stamp duty, 621,947.22 TRY net. The notice period is 8 weeks, and the gross notice pay, with no ceiling, 75,000 / 30 × 56 = 140,000 TRY. The calculator builds an estimated base of 476,000 TRY from a gross wage of 70,000 TRY each month from January to August, 59,500 TRY after the SGK and unemployment premiums; the whole pay falls in the 27% bracket, and the income tax is 37,800 TRY. The August wage uses the month’s minimum wage exemptions in full; none is left for the two payments, and the stamp duty is 1,062.60 TRY. Net notice pay is 101,137.40 TRY and the total net 723,084.62 TRY.

Limits

The calculator does not check entitlement: dismissal by the employer, resignation for just cause, retirement, military service, marriage and so on. No income tax or social security premium is withheld from severance pay; the calculator deducts only stamp duty of 7.59 per mille. Both payments are taken as paid in the exit month. Less than a year of service gives no severance pay, but notice pay can still be due: use the notice pay calculator. Unused leave pay and late payment interest are not calculated. Amounts are rounded to the kuruş. The calculator has data for end dates from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2026. Amounts before 1 January 2005 are in the old Turkish lira (1 YTL = 1,000,000 TL); the calculator does not go back further.