This New Zealand calculator helps employees and employers work out key dates and amounts when a job ends. You enter your last working day and pay cycle, and the tool estimates when your final pay should arrive, how the notice period in your agreement maps onto the calendar, and how the timing interacts with starting a new role. It is especially useful for planning the income gap between finishing one job and being paid by the next, a gap that catches many people out. The tool also prompts you to account for paid-out annual leave in the final pay. The breakdown lays out your notice dates, final pay timing, and the days to cover before your next pay, so a job change becomes a planned step rather than a financial scramble.
Final pay is usually made in the pay run covering your last working day and includes any unused annual leave, so it often arrives close to your last day. The gap shown is from your last working day to your first new pay, a conservative guide to the period your savings may need to cover. Notice periods are set in your employment agreement. General information only, not legal advice.
The calculator adds your notice period to the date you give notice to find your last working day. It then counts the days from that last working day to the first pay date at your new job, which is the window your savings may need to bridge. Your final pay, including paid-out annual leave, usually arrives soon after your last day and can help cover part of the gap, but it is wise to plan as though you must fund the whole window.
If you give four weeks notice today, your last working day is four weeks from now. If your new job first pays you three weeks after that, you have a gap of around 21 days where no new salary arrives, so you would want savings to cover roughly three weeks of expenses, less whatever your final pay provides.
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