New parent money
MATERNITY & PARENTAL MONEY
Your income through parental leave
See what your pay might look like, month by month, across a period of parental leave — so you can picture the gap and plan for it. Information and eligibility, with official GOV.UK links. Nothing is saved.
Answer a few quick questions and we'll picture your statutory pay, any employer top-up you tell us about, and your household income through the leave. It's an illustration on your own numbers — it clears when you leave the page.
What we assumed
- Average weekly earnings estimated as your annual pay ÷ 52 — a rough stand-in for the real 8-week reference period we can't see.
- Statutory Maternity Pay of 90% of earnings for 6 weeks, then the lower of the flat rate or 90% of earnings for up to 33 weeks — figures from the current tax-year rules.
- Any employer top-up and partner income shown are the figures you entered — your own numbers, not statutory ones.
- Statutory pay is UK-wide; the amounts change each April, so GOV.UK is the place to confirm your own position.
Check on GOV.UK
Every link here goes to GOV.UK — the official government service. Statutory pay rates are set by the government and change each April, so checking your own amount and dates on GOV.UK is always worth doing.