Severance Pay Calculator Lëtzebuerg 2026

Luxembourg pays statutory severance (indemnité de départ) as a fixed number of months of salary that jumps at seniority thresholds — not as a per-year accrual. Below five years of service the legal entitlement is exactly zero.

Entitlement below 5 years
0 months
At 10 years of service
2 months
At 30 years of service
12 months
Notice from 10 years
6 months

Article L.124-7 of the Code du travail sets a band table rather than a formula: 1 month at 5 years of service, 2 months at 10 years, 3 months at 15, 6 months at 20, 9 months at 25 and 12 months from 30 years. Nothing accrues between two thresholds, so an employee dismissed at 9 years and 11 months receives one month, and the same employee one month later receives two.

Notice is separate from severance and also tenure-banded: 2 months below 5 years of service, 3 months from 5 years and 6 months from 10 years. Employers with fewer than 20 staff may extend the notice period instead of paying the severance months — a substitution that exists in Luxembourg law and has no equivalent in the neighbouring systems.

Luxembourg's statutory minimum wage of €2,771 per month for unskilled adult workers is the highest in the EU, which mechanically makes each severance month expensive: a single month of severance in Luxembourg is worth more in cash than three months in most central-European member states. Severance is calculated on the actual gross monthly salary, with no reference-pay ceiling of the kind Portugal applies.

Because the entitlement is a step function, timing of the dismissal matters far more here than in accrual systems such as France or the Netherlands. Use the calculator below with your exact years of service to see which band applies to you.

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Ofstännegkeet1 Méint
€1,500.00
Kënnegungsfrist90 Deeg
€4,500.00
Proportionale Congé~14.7 Deeg
€733.33
Proportional BonussenChrëschtdag/Congé
€1,000.00
GESCHÄTZTEN TOTAL:€7,733.33

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