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Family pay calculator
Statutory maternity, adoption and paternity pay at the 2026/27 rate of £194.32 a week. Company schemes, where they exist, sit on top.
Rates checked 18 August 2026
Two qualifying tests, both easy to miss. Statutory family pay needs 26 weeks' service by the qualifying week and average earnings of at least £129 a week. The right to the leave itself is now a day one right; it is only the pay that carries the service test. Someone who misses the earnings test for maternity pay may claim Maternity Allowance instead, and pointing them at it costs you nothing.
How it is worked out
Maternity and adoption pay run for 39 paid weeks: the first six at 90 per cent of average weekly earnings with no cap, then 33 weeks at the lower of £194.32 or that same 90 per cent figure. Paternity pay is two weeks at the lower of the two. Average weekly earnings are taken from the eight weeks before the qualifying week, which is why a well timed bonus quietly raises the whole entitlement.
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