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Enter your last day and how the job ended. The calculator applies the North Carolina deadline, tells you how many days late the payment is, and estimates the possible late-pay penalty. It runs in your browser — nothing is sent to us.
The deadline is the statutory maximum in North Carolina: All wages due must be paid on or before the next regular payday, through the regular pay channels or by trackable mail if the employee asks in writing (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-25.7). North Carolina sets no shorter deadline for a discharge. Resignation follows the same rule: everything due is payable on or before the next regular payday, and the employee may request trackable mail in writing. The penalty estimate uses North Carolina's Wage and Hour Act does not provide liquidated damages or a waiting-time penalty payable to the employee for a late final paycheck. The Retail Workers' Bill of Rights adds a private action for some employers, but the standard remedy is the unpaid wages plus the Department of Labor's investigation.
This is an estimate, not a legal determination. Penalty provisions usually depend on the employer acting wilfully, and a court or agency decides the final number. Use the result to decide whether to send a demand, not as a promise of what you will collect.