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Try Our Free CalculatorIs My Severance Package Good? 2026 Benchmarks & Evaluation Guide
August 15, 2026 • 7 min read
How to read a severance offer against 2026 benchmarks: the 1-2-weeks-per-year baseline, industry bands, and the six package components beyond cash that change total value. A comparison framework, not a verdict.
legalDo You Have to Pay Back Your Sign-On Bonus If You're Laid Off?
August 11, 2026 • 10 min read
Laid off inside your bonus retention window and told to repay? What clawback clauses commonly say about involuntary exits, how proration and gross-vs-net work, the state wage-deduction limits employers must navigate, and the options people weigh. Educational information, not legal advice.
legalWhich States Require Severance Pay? The 2026 State-by-State Answer
August 11, 2026 • 13 min read
No US state requires severance pay for an ordinary individual termination, but New Jersey and Maine mandate it for certain mass layoffs and plant closings, and Puerto Rico requires an indemnity for unjust dismissal. Here is where the lines sit, statute by statute, with the thresholds and coverage conditions.
companiesJPMorgan Severance Package 2026: The $400K Cap Behind the 52-Week Formula
August 5, 2026 • 10 min read
JPMorgan Chase severance runs 2 weeks base plus 2 weeks per year of service, capped at the lesser of 52 weeks of pay or $400,000. For long-tenured senior staff the dollar ceiling bites first. Here's how the formula works by tenure, what the 2026 Jersey City and Plano cuts signal, and the levers that are actually movable.
companiesIntuit Severance Package 2026: The Rare Layoff With Terms On the Record
July 23, 2026 • 9 min read
Intuit cut ~3,000 roles, about 17% of its workforce, in a May 2026 AI restructuring of TurboTax and QuickBooks, and did what almost no big-tech peer did in 2026: it reportedly put specific severance terms on the record. Payroll through 31 July, then 16 weeks plus 2 weeks per year of service. Here's the reported formula, what it sketches out to, and why 'reported' still isn't 'confirmed'.
companiesMeta Severance Package 2026: The 16+2 Formula Is From 2022
July 23, 2026 • 10 min read
The '16 weeks + 2 weeks per year' formula everyone quotes for Meta is real, but it's company-confirmed only from Mark Zuckerberg's November 2022 letter. Meta's ~8,000-role May 2026 cut, with California separations effective 22 July 2026, is reported to follow it while gutting the Integrity and cybersecurity teams to fund a $125-145B AI buildout. Here's what's confirmed, what's only reported, and why forfeited RSUs are usually the bigger number.
companiesMicrosoft Severance Package 2026: The Xbox Cut With No Confirmed Number
July 23, 2026 • 11 min read
Microsoft has never published a per-employee severance formula, so every number circulating for its 6 July 2026 cut of ~4,800 roles, two-thirds of them in Xbox and gaming, is leaked or employee-reported. A Washington WARN notice puts 605 jobs on a 4 September closing date. Here's what's reported, what's confirmed, and why the unvested RSUs are usually the bigger number.
companiesGoogle Severance Package 2026: The 16-Week Number Is From 2023
July 22, 2026 • 11 min read
The '16 weeks + 2 weeks per year' formula everyone quotes for Google severance comes from a single 2023 blog post. The 2025-26 buyout wave, right through Google Cloud's June 2026 Mandiant cuts, has no company-published figure at all. Here's what's confirmed, what's leaked, and why forfeited equity is usually the bigger number.
companiesAmazon Severance Package 2026: The 90-Day Runway Decoded
July 17, 2026 • 11 min read
Amazon cut ~30,000 corporate roles in two waves (Oct 2025 + Jan 2026), and the package's biggest component isn't the severance cheque. Here's the 90-day paid runway, the employee-reported formula, and the RSU vest-date lottery, decoded.
companiesOracle Severance Package 2026: 30K-Cut Restructuring + AI-Spend Paradox Decoded
May 25, 2026 • 11 min read
Oracle's reported March 2026 restructuring: the reported severance formula (4 + 1/yr capped at 26 weeks), RSU forfeiture, and the separate notice, agreement-review and benefits dates behind the May and June cohorts.
companiesBofA Severance Package 2026: The Silent Shrink Decoded
May 22, 2026 • 11 min read
Bank of America has cut workforce since 2023 without a single WARN-triggering announcement. Here's how the 'silent shrink' actually works, what employees report on severance, and why the Elma NY filing is the rare exception worth watching.
companiesCiti Severance Package 2026: Project Bora Bora + 52-Wk Cap
May 22, 2026 • 11 min read
Citi's two-year Project Bora Bora restructuring has cut over 10,000 jobs since January 2024. Here's the 2-weeks-per-year cap, the title-tiered garden leave, and the deferred-comp lever most affected bankers miss.
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