Read a Severance Offer Against the Policy It Cites — Free
Paste the severance offer and the policy lines it relies on, and read the gap between the weeks paid and the weeks stated.
The proof surface
Severance letters are usually accurate about their own arithmetic and silent about which policy clause produced it. Putting both on one page makes the missing clause the obvious question.
Why the flat version breaks
Comparing to a colleague
Somebody else's settlement reflects their service, their role and their negotiation; the only comparison that stands up in writing is the policy excerpt covering you.
Signing to get it over with
Settlement letters usually carry a deadline and a full-and-final clause, and the deadline is exactly why the policy line rarely gets checked.
Treating bonus as weeks
A discretionary payment can be withdrawn or taxed differently from severance, so blending the two makes a short offer look generous.
How to work the severance gauge
Prefix each line Offer or Policy; the receipt reads them separately and keeps your wording.
Enter the weeks you read in the policy — this is the comparison figure, and the tool does not look it up.
The gap is priced in money at your weekly pay, printed on the perforated foot where the contention sits.
Request the clause that produces the offered number; the answer either closes the gap or confirms the shortfall.
What the receipt replaces
| Question | Before | On the receipt |
|---|---|---|
| Is the offer short | compare to hearsay | policy weeks against offered weeks |
| What is it worth | multiply roughly | the gap priced at your weekly pay |
| What to ask | 'is this right?' | ask for the clause that produces the number |
Discretionary and notice lines are shown as separate rows so an ex-gratia bonus cannot quietly stand in for statutory weeks.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the severance gauge: your offer letter and policy excerpt stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a till receipt with a tear-off foot
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 12 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The gauge and the week gap are free. The paid layer prints the comparison sheet and keeps the negotiation log.
Open the severance policy gauge companionBoundary
This severance gauge works only on the offer letter and policy lines you paste you paste. It does not give legal advice on the enforceability of a settlement, does not value a tribunal or court claim, and does not sign, accept or reject anything. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with an employment lawyer or a union representative before you rely on it.
What this is built on
- Every figure comes from the offer letter and policy lines you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: stated weeks are read from the policy line; paid weeks from the offer; the difference is priced at the weekly pay you supply
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Before: the reader compared the offer to a colleague's. After: they can see the letter pays 9 weeks where the policy excerpt states 12.