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Calculate Statutory Shared Parental Pay for 2026/27 across the weeks you plan to take, plus what your limited company can recover from HMRC. It uses the rates and thresholds HMRC has published for 2026/27 (Weekly ShPP rate of £194.32 for 2026/27, or average weekly earnings if lower, for up to 37 weeks after the two-week compulsory maternity leave period). Worked example: with average weekly earnings £550, weeks of shared parental pay claimed 20, employer type Standard employer (92% recovery), the result is total shpp due £3,886.40 and weekly rate £194.32. Free to use, no sign-up, from LimitedCompany.Accountants (ICAEW-regulated ACCOTAX).
Splitting leave between parents affects a limited company's payroll costs and recovery. This calculator turns your planned ShPP weeks into a weekly and total pay figure, helping directors budget cover and cash flow around the birth.
The shared parental leave pay calculator runs on the rates and thresholds HMRC has published for the 2026/27 tax year, so the figures you see reflect the position your company is actually filing on rather than a historic set of bands. Change any input and the result recalculates immediately, with no sign-up and nothing sent anywhere.
If you are a director of a UK limited company, use it as a first look before a decision rather than as the decision itself. Weekly ShPP rate of £194.32 for 2026/27, or average weekly earnings if lower, for up to 37 weeks after the two-week compulsory maternity leave period. Real company positions bring in other income, reliefs, group structures and prior year adjustments that a single page of inputs cannot see, which is why the workings are written out below under property & landlord. Read those, then check the numbers against your own accounts, and speak to us if anything looks materially different from what you expected.
Last checked against HMRC rates: 12 September 2026 (2026/27 tax year). Reviewed by Waqas Sagar, Member of ICAEW, Fellow of ACCA, Fellow of AAT.
Result, 2026/27
Total ShPP due
Weekly rate
Recoverable from HMRC
Net cost to the company
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Estimates for the 2026/27 tax year using published GOV.UK rates. Switch between 2026/27 and 2025/26 above.
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Book a free general call WhatsApp usBook technical advice (paid)Shared Parental Leave lets eligible parents split up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of pay between them after the mother or adopter ends her maternity or adoption leave and pay early. Each week of Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) is paid at the lower of average weekly earnings and the statutory weekly rate.
For 2026/27 that statutory rate is £194.32, the same figure used for statutory maternity, paternity and parental bereavement pay after the initial higher-rate maternity weeks. This calculator multiplies the applicable weekly rate by the number of weeks you plan to claim to give a total cost figure.
Employers recover most of ShPP from HMRC in the same way as other family-related statutory payments, through deductions from PAYE and NIC liabilities reported on the Employer Payment Summary.
Where each parent works for a different employer, both employers process their own share of ShPP independently, based on the notice and evidence each parent provides, including the other parent's curtailment of maternity or adoption leave.
A limited company director taking a share of ShPP needs to give the correct notice period, normally at least eight weeks before each block of leave, and should plan cover for client work or subcontracted delivery during the gap.
Because ShPP can run for many months, cash flow planning matters more than for the two-week paternity or bereavement payments. Even after recovery, employer National Insurance and pension contributions during the leave still fall on the business.
Small companies should factor the net cost, after recovery, into short-term cash flow forecasts, particularly if a locum, subcontractor or temporary hire is also being paid to cover the role.
Treat the result as a planning figure for the 2026/27 tax year. If it changes what you were about to do, take a director's salary, a dividend, a large asset purchase or a filing decision, check it against your own accounts first. We can review the position with you and confirm the tax treatment before you commit.
Up to 37 weeks of pay can be shared between eligible parents, drawn from the maternity or adoption pay period once the mother or adopter has curtailed her own leave and pay to release the remaining weeks.
The same statutory family pay rate as maternity and paternity pay, £194.32 a week, or average weekly earnings if that figure is lower.
Yes, parents can take leave and pay at the same time, in separate blocks, or a mixture of both, provided the total does not exceed the pool of weeks available and each employer receives the correct notice.
No. Standard employers recover 92.0% of the statutory payment and small employers recover 109.0%; the remainder, along with employer National Insurance during the leave, is a genuine cost to the business.
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