Abfindung Rechner Plus
A severance and runway calculator built for the German auto industry context, then turned into a planning hub that walks you from 'I have been made an offer' all the way to your next paid role.
Mid-career auto industry employees in Germany weighing a severance offer against staying, retraining, or starting a business
- Severance-vs-stay calculator that models tax treatment, Sperrzeit risk, and Arbeitslosengeld impact for typical German offers
- 12-month personal runway planner that turns a severance lump sum into a month-by-month budget with scenario branches for retraining versus job search
- Document vault with checklists for Aufhebungsvertrag, Sperrzeit avoidance, and Familienkasse or Bildungsprämie paperwork
- Optional upgrade to a 'mini-business' mode for workers like the ex-Mercedes manager who want to launch a small consulting or teaching practice
Mercedes is pushing 40-hour weeks, VW is rumoured to be cutting 100,000 to 120,000 jobs, and the SWR profile of a worker who accepted a severance and is happier for it is being read across the entire sector right now.
Multiple authoritative sources confirm tens of thousands of auto-industry workers are weighing severance: Handelsblatt reports 4000 Mercedes staff already left, ZEIT profiles recipients of 480k EUR payouts, VW severance packages up to 450-500k EUR, and the VDA warns of a structural Standortkrise across the sector.Autoindustrie: 4000 Beschäftigte haben Mercedes mit Abfindung verlassen ↗Abfindung: "Die Summe hatte es in sich - 480.000 Euro" ↗
At least five well-established free Abfindungsrechner already dominate SEO (Deutschland-Rechner, abfindung-rechner-online.de, smart-rechner, abfindungs-rechner.online, abfindungsrechner.org) and law firms (jura.cc, anwalt.de, fachanwalt.de, swp-anwaelte) publish free guides on VW severance — the auto-specific + planning-hub angle has some room but sits in a crowded category.Abfindungsrechner 2026 — Abfindung kostenlos berechnen ↗Abfindungs-Rechner 2026 — Fünftelregelung mit Reform-Vergleich ↗
Willingness to pay is plausible — payouts up to 500k EUR mean a 49-149 EUR premium for tax-optimised scenarios or coaching-style guidance is small change — but every competitor I found gives the core calculator away free, so revenue has to come from upsell (1:1 tax/lawyer referrals, retraining affiliates, B2B HR licensing), which is achievable but not obvious.Wie viel Abfindung zahlen VW, Mercedes und Co.? Ein Überblick ↗Abfindungsrechner 2026 - Netto & Fünftelregelung | Deutschlandrechner ↗
Structural and durable: VW's Zukunft Volkswagen program runs to 2030, Mercedes' severance window runs through April 2026, and the VDA explicitly warns of a multi-year Standortkrise driven by EV transition and Chinese competition — demand should outlast any single quarter.Stellenabbau bei Volkswagen - Was betroffene Beschäftigte jetzt wissen müssen ↗VDA warnt wegen massivem Stellenabbau vor Standortkrise ↗
Pure calculator + content/scenario hub — German severance math is deterministic (§ 1a KSchG, § 34 EStG Fünftelregelung) and well-documented by existing free tools, so the engineering bar is low; the harder work is editorial (runway coaching, retraining pathways, business-startup checklists) and SEO, not code.Abfindungsrechner - Steuern ermitteln - Smart-Rechner.de ↗