The headline figure answers the wrong question. The right question has a structure: what is genuinely being provided, measured against what is genuinely being surrendered — and the framework below is the same one applied in every review here.
Step One: Separate the Floor from the Layer
Strip the package to its true components: the floor — notice (or payment in lieu), accrued holiday pay, statutory redundancy where it applies — is money owed regardless of any agreement, and no waiver should be purchased with it; the layer — the ex gratia enhancement genuinely beyond entitlements, plus the non-money terms with real value: the agreed reference, the announcement, immediate certainty, a clean break timed for your next start. Packages are sometimes presented as generosity while consisting substantially of floor — and the separation is the first honest thing a review does, because only the layer is buying anything.
Step Two: Value the Waiver — Then Compare
The other side of the scales: the claims the schedule surrenders, valued realistically — their legal strength on your specific facts (the process actually run, the selection actually made, what you could actually prove), discounted for the time, cost and toll of pursuing them, and for litigation’s inherent uncertainty. A visibly flawed process makes your waiver expensive and the layer should reflect it; a clean, fair exit makes the waiver cheap and modest layers are honestly fair. Then the comparison decides: layer comfortably exceeds waiver-value — sign, possibly quickly; specific terms short — ask, once and professionally; waiver-value dwarfing the layer — think again, because keeping claims is sometimes the right trade, and the WRC comparison becomes live.
Why this can’t be self-served: most people can see the package clearly and have no way to value the waiver at all — it requires knowing what tribunals actually do with facts like yours, which is precisely what a practice running live employment claims brings to the 48-hour review. No figures appear on this page because no honest figures exist without your facts; with them, the comparison takes a day.
Both sides of your scales, weighed properly: 01 5827148.