Price one sick absence under the 6 April 2026 SSP rules

It works out what one sick absence costs an employer under the statutory sick pay rules that took effect on 6 April 2026, and what a year of absences costs across your headcount. It pays from day one, applies the lower of 80% of average weekly earnings or the £123.25 flat rate, and prints the gap against the old three-waiting-day rule.

UK small-business owners, payroll clerks and bookkeepers who run PAYE themselves and need a sick pay budget line for hourly, part-time and zero-hours staff. It is aimed at the employers who now owe statutory sick pay to people who earned under the old £125 a week lower earnings limit and were paid nothing before.

Most free sick pay calculators and chat answers still assume three unpaid waiting days and the £125 a week lower earnings limit, both of which were removed on 6 April 2026. On a four-day absence that arithmetic pays one day instead of four, and pays nothing at all to a low earner who now qualifies.

Every calculation is free, with no key and no limit: on £260 a week, a 5-day week and a 4-day absence it prints £24.65 a day, £98.60 for the absence, £73.95 above the old rule and £1774.80 a year across 12 staff. The paid tier is a different job: .csv export and a rate-change alarm.

A UK payroll bureau charges £4 to £15 per payslip per month on a £25 to £50 minimum monthly fee at 2026 market rates, and sick pay recalculations usually sit inside that engagement. The full version of this extension is $60 once, with one licence key per person or team seat.