Statutory Sick Pay: daily rates

What one qualifying day of Statutory Sick Pay comes to, at the flat weekly rate divided by the number of qualifying days in that week.

per day

Qualifying days	Daily rate
1	£123.25
2	£61.625
3	£41.0833
4	£30.8125
5	£24.65
6	£20.5417
7	£17.6071

Derivation verified Derived Great Britain in force since 2026-04-06

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-18

Scope: This table is the flat-rate CEILING. Section 157(1), as substituted on 6 April 2026, makes the weekly rate the LOWER of £123.25 and 80% of the employee's normal weekly earnings, so where 80% of those earnings is the lower figure the day's amount is that lower weekly figure divided by the same number of qualifying days — per-employee, and not a published figure. The limb this record divides is Statutory Sick Pay: weekly rate; the record is only the quotient (D14), and the build refuses a build in which the two disagree.

How it is worked out: Statutory Sick Pay: weekly rate ÷ qualifying days (for each row) — recomputed from its corroborated inputs on every build.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/157 (Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 s.157(3): “The amount of statutory sick pay payable by any one employer in respect of any day shall be the weekly rate applicable on that day divided by the number of days which are, in the week (beginning with Sunday) in which that day falls, qualifying days as between that employer and the employee concerned.” — the rule this table computes; and s.157(1), “substituted (6.4.2026) by” the “Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36)”, “ss. 11(2)”: “The weekly rate of statutory sick pay that an employer must pay to an employee is the lower of—” “£123.25”, and “80% of the employee’s normal weekly earnings.” — the flat rate the rule divides. The section fixes no rounding: its archived text carries no “round”, “penny” or “pence”)

retrieved 2026-09-08

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Show table (7 rows)

Qualifying days	Daily rate
1	£123.25
2	£61.625
3	£41.0833
4	£30.8125
5	£24.65
6	£20.5417
7	£17.6071

2026-04-06

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Derivation verified

Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/157 (Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 s.157(3): “The amount of statutory sick pay payable by any one employer in respect of any day shall be the weekly rate applicable on that day divided by the number of days which are, in the week (beginning with Sunday) in which that day falls, qualifying days as between that employer and the employee concerned.” — the rule this table computes; and s.157(1), “substituted (6.4.2026) by” the “Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36)”, “ss. 11(2)”: “The weekly rate of statutory sick pay that an employer must pay to an employee is the lower of—” “£123.25”, and “80% of the employee’s normal weekly earnings.” — the flat rate the rule divides. The section fixes no rounding: its archived text carries no “round”, “penny” or “pence”) retrieved 2026-09-08

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Name in the API: Statutory Sick Pay: daily rate by qualifying days in the week
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Compiler's notes

Section 157 fixes no rounding — the archived section text contains no “round”, no “penny” and no “pence” — so the quotient is published to 4 decimal places, the precision this record declares, and the amount actually payable for a day is a matter for the employer's payroll rounding, which the statute leaves unstated. This is our calculation from the statutory rule, not a table any authority publishes: no GOV.UK page carries it, so there is no B side and the single limb is cited as legislation. Owner decision D14, 2026-07-29: publish the calculation, labelled.