Unfair Dismissal Compensation Calculator
Estimate unfair dismissal compensation using real published UK employment tribunal awards.
Important Context
These figures represent awarded compensation only. Many cases settle out of court for undisclosed sums. Success rate includes cases won at hearing; many withdrawn cases are also settled without a public award.
How compensation is measured in unfair dismissal claims
This unfair dismissal compensation calculator uses published employment tribunal judgments to give context on real awards. It is built for people trying to understand the range of outcomes, not to promise a result in any individual case. The figures combine the tribunal's visible compensation data with the claim type recorded for the judgment, so the page reflects documented decisions rather than private settlement figures or broad anecdotal estimates.
For unfair dismissal, compensation is usually split between the statutory basic award and the compensatory award. The basic award uses age, length of service and weekly pay. The compensatory award focuses on financial loss, such as lost earnings, benefits and pension loss, and may be reduced if the tribunal finds the dismissal would have happened anyway or the claimant did not mitigate their loss.
Some dismissal awards are affected by statutory caps and reductions. The calculator data should therefore be read alongside the legal rules that apply to the date of dismissal, the claimant's weekly pay and the type of dismissal claim. The figures below are total published awards, so they may include more than one head of compensation.
The numbers on this page are not a prediction of any individual claim. They summarise published decisions where compensation appears in the judgment, so they are useful for context but not a complete view of every claim issued, negotiated or settled. Many employment tribunal cases settle privately, and those settlement values usually do not appear in the public judgment record.
Use the median, highest award and top published cases as a starting point for research. The median is usually more useful than the average because very large awards can pull the average upward. The top cases show what has happened in documented disputes, but they should not be treated as normal outcomes. Legal advice is still needed before relying on any number for settlement, litigation risk or pleading a schedule of loss.
Browse unfair dismissal tribunal casesStatutory basic award calculator
Estimate the unfair dismissal basic award
This covers the statutory basic award only. It does not include the compensatory award, loss of earnings, adjustments, interest or any uplift.
Estimated basic award
£8,750
The formula gives 12.5 weeks of capped pay across 10 years. In published unfair dismissal awards, the median total award in this dataset is £4,802.
Estimate only, not legal advice. The compensatory award is not included in this calculation.
Claimant PackTop 10 Highest-Value Judgments
University of Southampton
2021
The claimant's claims for wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, failure to pay holiday pay, direct religion or belief discrimination, direct race discrimination, indirect religion or belief discrimination, indirect race discrimination, harassment related to religion or belief, harassment related to race and victimisation were well founded.
View JudgmentCroydon Health Services NHS Trust
2020
The claimant was a consultant cardiologist who was unfairly dismissed by the respondent NHS trust. The tribunal awarded him compensation including a basic award, compensatory award, and damages for injury to feelings and aggravated damages.
View JudgmentThe Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
2020
The claimant was unfairly dismissed and subjected to disability discrimination. She was awarded £265,719.23 in compensation, including £3,394.68 for breach of contract regarding notice pay.
View JudgmentSynthite Ltd
2023
The 49 claimants, who were members of the Unite trade union, claimed the respondent made an inducement relating to collective bargaining in breach of section 154B Trade Union & Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. The tribunal found in favour of the claimants and ordered the respondent to pay each claimant £4,554.
View JudgmentMetroline Travel Ltd
2024
The tribunal found that the claimant's complaint of unfavourable treatment because of something arising in consequence of disability and the claimant's complaint of unfair dismissal were well founded and succeeded. The respondent was ordered to pay the claimant a total compensation amount of £153,261.04, inclusive of interest.
View JudgmentCroydon Health Services NHS Trust
2020
Claimant awarded £124,926.04 in respect of pension loss as final element of compensatory award.
View JudgmentGenesis Technology Services Ltd
2024
The claimant Mr N Satpal succeeded in his unfair dismissal claim, with a total award of £122,654.26 calculated based on various components including basic and compensatory awards, notice pay, injury to feelings, and interest.
View JudgmentAqua Lane Ltd
2026
The respondent, Aqua Lane Limited, is ordered to pay the claimant £122,425.70 comprising a basic award of £9,800, a compensatory award of £75,982.63, an award for injury to feelings of £32,000, and interest.
View JudgmentNottinghamshire County Council and The Governing Body of The Banks Road Infants and Nursery School
2024
The claimant succeeded in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims. The total compensation of £111,108 was awarded.
View JudgmentEmpathyBroker Ltd
2025
The claim for unfair dismissal by Mr J Newman against EmpathyBroker Limited was successful, with the respondent agreeing to pay £107,636.00.
View JudgmentFrequently asked questions
What is the average payout for unfair dismissal?
In the published awarded cases in this dataset, the average unfair dismissal payout is £15,349 and the median award is £4,802. This is based on 1,028 cases with visible compensation.
What is the highest unfair dismissal award?
The highest published unfair dismissal award in this dataset is £3,449,329. Large awards are unusual and can be driven by long periods of financial loss, injury to feelings or other case-specific factors.
What percentage of unfair dismissal claims succeed?
In the matching published judgments, claimants succeeded in 28.2% of cases. That is based on 9,095 documented outcomes, not every claim issued or settled.