Notice period calculator: when is your last working day?

Add your notice period to your resignation date. For a notice period in days, count calendar days: resign on 6 November 2026 with 60 days' notice and, counting from the day after you resign, your last working day is 5 January 2027. If your employer counts the resignation day itself as day 1, it's a day earlier, 4 January 2027. For a notice period in months, go to the same date that many months later: two months from 6 November 2026 is 6 January 2027. Your appointment letter or HR policy sets the length and how it's counted, so check its exact wording.

Not quite. Two months runs to the same date two months later, which is anywhere from 59 to 62 calendar days depending on the months it spans. From 6 November 2026, two months ends on 6 January 2027, 61 days, one day after 60 days would. When the matching date doesn't exist, the notice ends on the last day of that month: two months from 31 December 2026 is 28 February 2027. Check whether your letter says days or months, and pick the same unit in the calculator.

It depends on how your employer counts it, and there's no single rule this calculator can assume. Counting from the day after you resign, 60 days' notice from 6 November 2026 ends on 5 January 2027; counting the resignation day as day 1, it ends on 4 January 2027. The calculator shows both. If HR confirms a last working day in writing when they accept your resignation, go by that date and ask about any difference.

In this calculator, yes: it counts calendar days, so weekends and public holidays are included. If your appointment letter or HR policy counts notice in working days instead, your last day will fall later than shown. If your last working day lands on a Saturday or Sunday, the calculator points it out, so you can ask HR whether you're relieved on that day or on the working day before.

Only if your employer agrees. Serving your full notice is the default; leaving early, by buying out the days you won't serve or by agreeing an early release, is a negotiated exception that both sides have to agree to, and some appointment letters rule out a buyout altogether. If your employer agrees, get the new last working day in writing. To estimate what a buyout would cost, use our notice-period buyout calculator.

Only if your employer allows it. Whether you can take leave during your notice, or set your leave balance against it, depends on your employer's leave and exit policy and your contract, so this calculator doesn't subtract leave. Ask HR, and if they agree to an earlier last working day, get that date in writing and enter the shorter notice here. Leave that isn't used this way may instead be paid out when you leave; our leave encashment calculator estimates that amount.