ByeByeJob: Severance & Layoff

There is no federal severance minimum. Nothing in US law says your employer owes you a payout at all.

What there is: an offer, a tax bill most people underestimate, an agreement nobody reads, and a federal notice law that may not have applied at all. ByeByeJob handles all four.

The calculator is free. It stays free.

THE CALCULATOR — FREE
Enter a severance offer as weeks-per-year of service or as a flat amount and the app estimates what it is actually worth:
• Federal income tax, bracket by bracket, for your filing status
• Social Security and Medicare (FICA), including the wage base
• State income tax at a rate you enter
• Accrued PTO and a pending bonus
• Gross and net, side by side

Figures are current to tax year 2026: brackets, standard deductions and the Social Security wage base.

THE WARN ACT CHECK — FREE
The federal WARN Act requires sixty days' notice of a qualifying plant closing or mass layoff. Whether it applied to yours turns on the size of your employer, the number of people let go, and the share of the site's workforce that went with you — the one-third-of-site test almost nobody mentions. The app walks the statutory tests and tells you what it cannot see.

THE REST OF IT — FREE
• Red flags — questions about how your layoff was handled, and why each matters
• A guided checklist across four stages: at risk, consultation, notice served, after you leave
• Meeting preparation — what to ask, and what to write down
• Key dates, kept as a list in the app
• Somewhere to keep the paperwork — attach the letters and the agreement; they sit in the app's own private storage on your phone

UK MODE IS BUILT IN TOO
Switch countries and the app calculates UK statutory redundancy pay — which, unlike the US, is a real legal floor with a formula.

WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM — FREE
Every statutory figure in the app links out to the IRS, DOL, GOV.UK or ACAS page it came from, and records the date it took effect. You do not have to take our word for any of it — check it yourself, at the source.

Not our numbers. The law's.

BYEBYEJOB PRO — ONE PAYMENT
• Export a calculation as a PDF you can keep, print or send on
• Letter and email templates — asking for terms in writing, negotiating an offer, asking for more time, querying WARN notice, requesting a reference
• Offer breakdown — your offer set out item by item