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Enter your last day and how the job ended. The calculator applies the Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania: Whether you were fired, laid off or you quit, all wages earned become due and payable no later than the employer's next regular payday on which those wages would otherwise have been paid (43 P.S. § 260.5). If you ask, the employer must send the final payment by certified mail. Resignation follows the same rule: everything earned is due by the next regular payday. The statute deliberately gives you no shorter deadline, but it also forbids the employer from holding pay to force return of equipment. The penalty estimate uses 43 P.S. § 260.10: if wages are still unpaid 30 days after the regular payday and there is no good-faith dispute, the employee may recover liquidated damages of 25% of the unpaid wages or $500, whichever is greater, plus a court-awarded attorney's fee.
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.