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Notice Period
Enter your resignation date and your contract's notice period to get your exact last working day — counted in calendar days or working days, your choice.
Last Working Day
How to use the notice period calculator
Enter your resignation date
This is the date you submit your resignation — the calculator starts the notice period the day after it.
Enter your notice period length
Type the number from your employment contract or appointment letter, and pick days, weeks or months.
Choose calendar or working days
Pick calendar days if your contract counts every day including Sundays, or working days if it only counts Monday–Saturday.
Read your last working day
See your exact last working day, the calendar and working days it spans, and an optional buyout estimate if you add your salary.
What is a notice period?
A notice period is the length of time an employee must keep working after resigning (or after being asked to leave) before their employment formally ends — giving the employer time to hand over work and find a replacement, and giving the employee a confirmed last working day.
- Who sets it: almost always your employment contract or appointment letter, not a single fixed law — see the statutory floor vs. contract section below.
- What it's for: a clean handover window, so projects, access and knowledge transfer aren't dropped suddenly on either side.
- What this tool does: pure date math — it takes the length your contract specifies and tells you the resulting last working day, nothing more.
How the last working day is calculated
The notice period starts the day after your resignation date, then runs for exactly the length you enter — the only choice is whether every calendar day counts, or only Monday–Saturday.
Calendar-day mode: Last Working Day = (Resignation Date + 1 day) + (Notice Period − 1 day), counting every day including Sundays.
Working-day mode: Last Working Day = the day the Nth Monday–Saturday day falls on, counting from the day after your resignation date and skipping Sundays.
Weeks convert to 7 days each; months convert to 30 days each — a flat approximation, since calendar months don't all have the same number of days.
This is a date calculation only. It doesn't determine how long your notice period should legally be — that comes from your employment contract, subject to the statutory floor explained next.
Statutory floor vs. your contract
In India, there's no single legal notice period number the way there is for gratuity — Indian law sets only a floor, and your actual notice period is whatever your employment contract specifies, as long as it meets or exceeds that floor.
The statutory floor: The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 requires 30 to 90 days' notice for "workmen" depending on the establishment, and state Shops & Establishments Acts set their own minimums — for example, Maharashtra requires 30 days' notice after one year of service.
Your contract usually governs: Most salaried, white-collar employment contracts specify a notice period directly — commonly 30, 60 or 90 days — and that figure is what actually applies, provided it isn't shorter than the statutory floor for your role and state.
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