Despido improcedente: 33 days of pay a year up to 24 months; 45 days for time before 2012
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 16 Oct 2026.A despido improcedente in Spain, a dismissal a court or the employer accepts as unjustified, pays 33 days of salary per year of service, prorated by months, up to 24 monthly payments (article 56.1 of the Estatuto de los Trabajadores). For a contract signed before 12 February 2012, the time before that date counts at 45 days per year, with a limit of 720 days of pay unless the earlier time alone gives more.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 16 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
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When a job ends in Spain, the Estatuto de los Trabajadores fixes the minimum severance by the way it ends. This page works out that amount from your pay and dates, each step shown.
Despido improcedente (article 56.1). A dismissal the employer cannot justify: 33 days of salary per year of service, the part year prorated by months, never more than 24 monthly payments.
Contracts before 12 February 2012. For an unfair dismissal the time before that date counts at 45 days per year and the time after at 33. The total cannot pass 720 days of pay, unless the time before 2012 alone gives more days, which then becomes the limit, and never more than 42 monthly payments (transitional provision eleven).
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Take the daily pay, the gross annual pay divided by 365, and multiply it by the days the law grants per year of service: 33 for an unfair dismissal, 20 for an objective one, 12 when a temporary contract ends. The part year counts in months, and the caps of 24 or 12 monthly payments apply.
Twenty-four monthly payments, two years of salary, for service since 12 February 2012. For an older contract the limit is 720 days of pay, or the days earned before 2012 when they alone pass 720, never more than 42 monthly payments.
Twenty days of pay per year of service, prorated by months, up to 12 monthly payments (article 53.1.b). On €30,000 a year after 8 years and 6 months that is 170 days, €13,972.60, due when the employer hands over the written notice.
Yes, for an unfair dismissal. The years before 12 February 2012 count at 45 days each, the years after at 33. The page splits the service at that date and applies the 720-day limit of transitional provision eleven.
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