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Turkish Severance Pay Calculator (Kıdem Tazminatı)

Legal severance from your dates and gross pay, with the ceiling applied

How it is calculated

The tool works out your service from the two dates and prices it: service = years + months / 12 + days / 365, pay used = the smaller of (gross + benefits) and the ceiling, severance = pay used × service, net = severance × (1 − 0.00759). Enter monthly gross pay and regular benefits in Turkish lira.

The ceiling comes from the exit date. Half-year ceilings from 1 January 2023 are built in, and the page shows which one it used. For an exit after the latest published ceiling it uses that latest figure, so check it again once a new one is out. For an exit before 2023, type the ceiling yourself or the tool will ask you to check your inputs. Service under one year shows zero, because no severance is earned.

Worked example

Someone hired on 1 March 2020 leaves on 1 October 2026 on 50,000 TL gross a month plus 5,000 TL of regular benefits. Service is 6 years and 7 months: 6 + 7 / 12 = 6.58 years. Pay of 55,000 TL is under the 73,729.87 TL ceiling, so all of it counts: 55,000 × 6.5833 = 362,083.33 TL. Stamp duty of 0.759% takes 2,748.21 TL, leaving 359,335.12 TL.

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Common mistakes

  • Entering net pay. Severance is figured on gross pay.
  • Leaving out regular benefits such as meals, transport and regular bonuses, which count towards the pay.
  • Using today's ceiling for an old exit. The ceiling in force on the exit date applies.
  • Assuming every exit qualifies. An ordinary resignation usually earns no severance, whatever this figure says.
  • Expecting income tax to come off. Up to the ceiling only stamp duty is deducted.

About this calculator

Turkish severance pay, kıdem tazminatı, is set by article 14 of the old Labour Law No. 1475, which stayed in force for this purpose. A worker with at least one year at the same employer earns 30 days of gross pay for each year of service, and a part-year counts pro rata. The pay is the gross figure plus regular benefits such as meals and transport, but it cannot go above a ceiling the Treasury and Finance Ministry publishes every six months.

The ceiling that applies is the one in force on the exit date, not today's. The amount up to the ceiling is free of income tax, and only stamp duty of 0.759% comes off. Whether the money is owed at all depends on how the job ended: dismissal without just cause, retirement, military service and a few other grounds qualify, while an ordinary resignation usually does not. This tool does the arithmetic and cannot judge that, so have a lawyer or your payroll office confirm a real claim.

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