Settlement Advice Fee Index

The median published figure in the Settlement Advice Fee Index is 500 GBP across 7 sources' own pages (range 350 to 500 GBP), read 17 October 2026.

500 GBP Median published figure unchanged since 26 Sept 2026 middle half 350 to 500 GBP
350 to 500 GBP Range a 150 GBP spread; quartiles 350 and 500
7 Published figures from 7 source pages, read 21 Oct 2026
7 of 34 Sources read that publish one 21% publish a figure at all
  1. Hibberts Solicitors settlement agreement legal fees500 GBP + VAT
  2. Just Employment settlement agreement advice cost500 GBP + VAT
  3. Mason Bullock settlement agreement advice cost500 GBP + VAT
  4. Horne, Engall & Freeman price transparency: employment settlement agreements500 GBP + VAT
  5. Lincs Law settlement agreement fees and costs350 GBP + VAT
  6. Greater London Solicitors employment fees350 GBP
  7. Bates Wells Sudbury settlement agreement solicitors fees explained350 GBP
Every published figure, highest first.median 500 GBP
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RowValue
Hibberts Solicitors settlement agreement legal fees500 GBP + VAT
Just Employment settlement agreement advice cost500 GBP + VAT
Mason Bullock settlement agreement advice cost500 GBP + VAT
Horne, Engall & Freeman price transparency: employment settlement agreements500 GBP + VAT
Lincs Law settlement agreement fees and costs350 GBP + VAT
Greater London Solicitors employment fees350 GBP
Bates Wells Sudbury settlement agreement solicitors fees explained350 GBP

7 of the 34 named sources read in full publish a figure; 27 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 500 GBP across 7).

By fee basis

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
fee basisfixed500GBP350 to 500GBP7

Every figure, with its source

One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

The sentence each figure was read from (7)

Read in full, publishes no figure

27 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

7 of the 34 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 27 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 102 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the median, minimum and maximum PUBLISHED fixed fee for advising on a settlement agreement across every firm that publishes one, beside the employer contribution each firm says it typically sees; the gap between those two distributions is the derived figure - the probability that the employer's contribution covers the fee, and the amount an employee pays when it does not - and no firm, regulator or directory publishes it.

Split by jurisdiction (England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland), by whether the fee covers negotiation as well as sign-off, and by whether VAT is stated inclusive; repriced-since.

102 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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The median published figure in the Settlement Advice Fee Index is 500 GBP across 7 sources' own pages (range 350 to 500 GBP), read 17 October 2026.

7 of the 34 named sources read in full publish a figure; 27 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

Settlement Advice Fee Index, fee basis fixed: median 500 GBP across 7 sources, read 17 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 500 GBP across 7).

Cite as: "Corp Tax Calculator Settlement Advice Fee Index", updated 2026-10-21, https://corptaxcalculator.co.uk/datasets/settlement-advice-fee-index/.

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500 GBP

median published figure, Settlement Advice Fee Index, across 7 sources, read 17 October 2026

Source: Corp Tax Calculator Settlement Advice Fee Index

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