Got a severance offer? Find out if it’s fair.
Answer a few questions about your job and your severance package. Severance.help evaluates the offer and tells you whether it appears weak, fair, or strong, explains why, and shows what may be worth negotiating.
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Why the assessment reached this result
- 12 years of service
- Strong performance history
- No documented discipline
- Position eliminated in a reduction in force
- Broad release of claims requested
Potentially negotiable
Illustrative example. Your assessment reflects your own answers.
Most people have no idea whether their offer is normal
Severance is one of the few large financial decisions people make with almost no reference point. You get a number, a deadline, and a document full of terms you have never seen before. Severance.help gives you a second opinion before you sign.
Tell us about the job
Tenure, pay, level, and how the employment ended. About four minutes.
Describe the package
Cash, benefits, bonus, equity, PTO, and the terms the agreement asks you to accept.
Get the assessment
Offer strength, negotiation potential, an estimated total package value, and the reasoning behind it.
Act on it
Generate a professional negotiation letter you can edit and send yourself.
What the assessment looks at
The recommendation is not a single formula applied to your salary. It weighs the full picture, because the same six weeks of pay means something very different after eleven months than it does after eleven years.
Tenure and seniority
- Years of service
- Job level and management responsibility
- Base salary, bonus, and commission
- Equity and deferred compensation
- Employer size and industry
How it ended
- Layoff, elimination, restructuring, or cause
- Whether others were let go
- Whether the role is being backfilled
- Performance record and any prior discipline
- Recent reviews, raises, or promotions
What you are being asked to give up
- Breadth of the release of claims
- Non-disparagement and confidentiality
- Noncompete and non-solicitation
- Reference and rehire language
- Signing and revocation deadlines
Start with your situation
Guides written for the specific question you are actually searching for.
Is my severance offer fair?
The benchmarks people actually use, and the five factors that change the answer.
How much severance should I get?
What is typical by tenure and level, and why there is no legal minimum in most cases.
How to negotiate severance
What to ask for, how to ask, and what tends to be available beyond the cash.
Severance calculator
Convert weeks, months, and dollars into the total value of what you are being offered.
What is severance, exactly?
How severance works, when employers offer it, and what the agreement is really for.
Should I sign my severance agreement?
What to check before the deadline, and what signing actually commits you to.
What this is, and what it is not
We would rather be clear about the limits than oversell the product.
What Severance.help does
- Assesses whether an offer appears weak, fair, or strong given your circumstances
- Explains the specific factors behind that assessment
- Estimates the total value of the package, not just the headline number
- Identifies the terms most commonly worth negotiating
- Drafts a professional negotiation letter you control and can edit
What it does not do
- It is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice
- It will not tell you that your employer broke the law
- It will not promise that negotiating will get you more
- It cannot review your agreement the way an attorney can
- It flags circumstances that may warrant a lawyer’s review rather than ruling on them
The assessment is AI-generated and informational. It is built on the answers you provide, deterministic calculations, and a documented set of factors. It is a commercial assessment of how an offer compares to common practice, not a legal determination about your rights. If your situation involves discrimination, retaliation, unpaid wages, a noncompete you cannot live with, or an offer with a great deal of money at stake, talk to an employment attorney licensed in your state. Read our editorial policy for how we research and review what we publish.
Know before you sign.
Most severance deadlines are measured in days. Five minutes now is a reasonable trade for knowing where your offer actually stands.
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