The Greek severance table 2026, read year by year
The two statutory scales of Law 4093/2012, severance and notice, with the value of every work anniversary.
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The Greek severance table, set by Law 4093/2012, converts completed years with the same employer into months of salary. One to under four years gives 2 months; four to under six gives 3; six to under eight, 4; eight to under ten, 5. From ten years each anniversary adds one month, from 6 at ten to 12 at 16, and the scale stops there. The total is then increased by one sixth for the holiday bonuses, so 2 months are really 2.33 months of pay and 12 are 14. A second, shorter table sets the written notice: 1 month from twelve months of service, 2 from two years, 3 from five and 4 from ten. With notice, severance is halved. On a salary of €2,500, the first completed year is worth €5,833, and the thirteenth anniversary alone adds €2,917.
Where you sit in the table
Months of pay
3
| Severance with 1/6 | €4,550 |
| With one more year | €6,067 |
The statutory severance scale
| Completed years | Months in the law | Months with 1/6 | Half (with notice) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to under 4 | 2 | 2.33 | 1.17 |
| 4 to under 6 | 3 | 3.5 | 1.75 |
| 6 to under 8 | 4 | 4.67 | 2.33 |
| 8 to under 10 | 5 | 5.83 | 2.92 |
| 10 | 6 | 7 | 3.5 |
| 11 | 7 | 8.17 | 4.08 |
| 12 | 8 | 9.33 | 4.67 |
| 13 | 9 | 10.5 | 5.25 |
| 14 | 10 | 11.67 | 5.83 |
| 15 | 11 | 12.83 | 6.42 |
| 16 or more | 12 | 14 | 7 |
Read the first column with the word “completed” in front of it. “1 to under 4” covers anyone past the first anniversary of hiring but not yet at the fourth. The single-year rows from ten onwards each cover twelve months: “10” runs from the tenth anniversary to the day before the eleventh. The second column is the scale as printed by the Ministry of Labour for dismissal without notice. The third shows what is actually paid once the one-sixth uplift is added, and the fourth the halved amount when the employer gave written notice in time.
If you come from a country where redundancy pay grows smoothly with each year, the Greek table can look odd. It has flat stretches and steps, and the steps sit in different places from the notice scale. Knowing where they fall tells you which dates matter.
Every year from one to seventeen
| Years | Months | Notice (months) | Severance at €2,500 | Added by that year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 1 | €5,833 | +€5,833 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | €5,833 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | €5,833 | 0 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | €8,750 | +€2,917 |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | €8,750 | 0 |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | €11,667 | +€2,917 |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | €11,667 | 0 |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | €14,583 | +€2,917 |
| 9 | 5 | 3 | €14,583 | 0 |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | €17,500 | +€2,917 |
| 11 | 7 | 4 | €20,417 | +€2,917 |
| 12 | 8 | 4 | €23,333 | +€2,917 |
| 13 | 9 | 4 | €26,250 | +€2,917 |
| 14 | 10 | 4 | €29,167 | +€2,917 |
| 15 | 11 | 4 | €32,083 | +€2,917 |
| 16 | 12 | 4 | €35,000 | +€2,917 |
| 17 | 12 | 4 | €35,000 | 0 |
At €2,500 a month, each step of one month is worth €2,917. The last column makes the pattern visible. Year one creates the entitlement. Years two and three add nothing. Years four, six and eight add a month each, while five, seven and nine do not. From ten to 16, every single anniversary adds a month. Year seventeen adds nothing again, because the scale has reached its ceiling.
Two colleagues hired a few weeks apart can therefore receive different amounts in the same round of dismissals, if one of them has crossed a step and the other has not. That is not an error on the payslip; it is how the scale is built.
The notice scale
| Completed service | Written notice |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 month |
| 2 to under 5 | 2 months |
| 5 to under 10 | 3 months |
| 10 or more | 4 months |
Notice (proeidopoiisi) starts at twelve completed months and has only four rows. Its thresholds, at two, five and ten years, do not line up with the severance steps. Between five and ten years, for instance, notice stays at 3 months while severance climbs from 3 to 5 months. An employer that gives notice of the right length pays half the severance at the end of the notice period, and the employee works and is paid in the meantime.
Notice or full severance?
Months of notice
3
| Severance without notice | €7,000 |
| Severance with notice | €3,500 |
| Pay during the notice period | €4,500 |
Three ways people misread the table
The first is rounding up. “Almost six years” is five years, and it stays in the 3-month row until the sixth anniversary. The second is counting the whole career. The table looks only at the employer that ends the contract, so a move between two companies in the same group needs checking against how the contracts were transferred, which this page does not cover. The third is forgetting the uplift: multiplying €2,500 by 2 gives €5,000, while the statutory amount is €5,833.
The opposite mistake also happens: assuming the scale keeps rising after 16 years. It does not, unless you already had 17 years with the employer on 12 November 2012, in which case the long-service rules add up to twelve extra months.
What the table does not tell you
The table gives months, not euros. To turn months into money you need the regular pay of your last full-time month, capped at €9,861.60, and for day-rate workers a month of 22 daily wages. It also states a minimum: a contract, a collective agreement or custom that grants more takes precedence. And it is written for open-ended contracts, the case the Ministry and the Labour Inspectorate describe. For your own figure, use the severance calculator; for what your salary is worth net while you are still employed, the Greek salary calculator.