Does a higher employer percent always close the gap?

Weekly gap is base minus employer replacement minus benefits you entered. Stacking benefits can still leave a shortfall if base pay is higher.

Why aren’t statutory tables built in?

Benefit formulas and eligibility change by jurisdiction and individual facts. User-entered amounts avoid false precision.

Parental Leave Income Replacement: Salary, Employer %, Benefits

Leave planning mixes job protection, employer pay continuation, and any public benefits you research yourself. This guide explains the cash-flow arithmetic on our parental leave worksheet—without claiming eligibility, tax treatment, or child-support outcomes.

What the worksheet models

Weekly base pay is annual salary ÷ 52. Employer replacement is that base times the percent you enter. Add any weekly state/disability benefit and other weekly income you type. Total leave income is replacement × leave weeks; the unpaid gap is max(0, base − weekly replacement).

Eligibility stays outside the tool

U.S. Department of Labor FMLA materials describe federal job-protected leave rules for covered employers and eligible employees; FMLA itself does not require paid leave. State paid-leave and short-term disability programs differ. Confirm rights and benefit amounts with HR and official notices—never with a generic calculator.

Build a cash-flow sketch

Start from gross salary

Use the annual figure that matches how you think about weekly base pay.

Enter employer continuation

Use the percent from your policy or offer letter—not a blog average.

Add researched weekly benefits

Paste amounts from state estimators or benefit letters you already have.

Set leave weeks

Model the weeks you are comparing; run multiple scenarios for unpaid extensions.

Open the parental leave worksheet

Salary, weeks, employer %, and benefits you enter:

Parental Leave Calculator

Connect to childcare budgets—not legal tools

After leave, daycare, nanny, and babysitting worksheets estimate care costs from rates you enter. College/529-style and baby-supply guides cover other family planning math. This cluster does not calculate child support.