Editorial Team
How we source, review, and update what you read here.
Who we are
The Severance Calculator Editorial Team is the pseudonymous team responsible for the legal, tax, and policy content on this site. We don’t name individual contributors. We do publish, in detail, the standards we hold ourselves to and the sources we cite. If you find an error, contact us at hello@severancecalc.net and we will correct it.
Editorial policy
Every numeric claim on this site is tied to a primary source: the Internal Revenue Code, Department of Labor regulations, USCIS guidance, Social Security Administration publications, state tax agency rate tables, or court rulings. We do not cite news outlets or aggregators as primary sources for legal claims.
The calculator engine is unit-tested against worked examples drawn from agency publications. State pages, company pages, and scenario pages cite at least three primary sources each — with the exception of pages that explicitly acknowledge a company’s nondisclosure of internal severance terms.
Funding and conflicts of interest
This site is funded by display advertising. We do not sell legal, tax, or financial services. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored content, affiliate commissions on legal services, or referral fees from law firms. We have no client relationships with any company named on this site.
Ads on this site are served by third-party networks and are clearly demarcated as advertising. Editorial content is never adjusted to favor an advertiser.
Corrections policy
If a claim on this site is wrong, we want to know. Email hello@severancecalc.net with the page URL, the specific claim, and what you believe the correct value or interpretation is. We aim to acknowledge corrections within 5 business days and update the page (with a timestamp on the affected entry) within 10.
We don’t silently change content. Material corrections are noted in commit history (public on GitHub) and, for high-traffic pages, called out at the top of the page for 30 days following the change.
Update cadence
Federal and state tax rate tables are reviewed quarterly. Statutory threshold changes (WARN Act amendments, OWBPA timing, etc.) are reviewed at least annually and ad-hoc when we learn of changes through primary-source channels. Company-specific pages are reviewed when public reporting indicates a layoff or severance policy change.