SSP Calculator

The Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Calculator will help you to work out if you have to pay SSP and if so how much you must pay to your employee for an absence from work due to sickness for four, or more, days in a row. It will also help you to work out how much SSP you can recover for each tax month.

If you have used the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Calculator to calculate the amount of repayment or recovery previously please check for any updates below and click on the appropriate link below:

To access use the links below.

Calculate Employee Statutory Sick Pay

Calculate Employer's Recovery

If you have not used the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Calculator previously please read the information needed below then click on the links above or below:

To work out how much SSP you will have to pay you will need:

  • the employee's first full day of sick absence
  • the date your employee first notified you they would be absent due to sickness
  • their last day of sick absence with you, if applicable
  • medical evidence for a period of sick absence continuing beyond seven days
  • full details of any sick absence this employee had that ended within the 57 days before this sick absence started and the total number of weeks and days SSP you paid
  • details of the employee's gross earnings during a period of at least eight weeks immediately before they were first absent due to sickness - unless they have a previous period of sickness (see above), or they are a new employee
  • the days of the week that you and your workforce agree are qualifying days for SSP or, if there are no agreed days, the days of the week that the employee is expected to work under their contract or, if the contract does not specify days, the days that they are normally expected to work
  • SSP1(L) from a previous employer or a BF220, 220A, 220B, 220C (Linking letter from Department for Work and Pensions re continuing Incapacity Benefit entitlement) if you hold one

To work out how much you as the employer can recover you will need:

  • details of all the SSP you paid to all your employees in the tax month/s for which you wish to calculate recovery
  • the total amount of Class 1 National Insurance contributions you were liable to pay for each of the tax months for which recovery is to be calculated

Note:

  • if you are an Agency you can use the SSP Calculator so long as you are liable to pay Class 1 National Insurance Contributions for the sick worker
  • you can calculate the recovery without the need to have first calculated SSP due for an employee

To access use the links below.

You may want to look at E14 Employers' Help Book (PDF 164K)

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) cannot be held liable for incorrect output from this calculator.

Correct information can only result from this calculator if correct details are entered.

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To access use the links below:

Calculate Employee Statutory Sick Pay

Calculate Employer's Recovery