Employment and settlement agreement solicitors in Aberdeen

Aberdeen’s employment claims are heard at a tribunal hearing centre on Huntly Street, and Aberdeen jobs have the highest median pay of the three Scottish cities on this site — ahead of Edinburgh by about a pound a week.

Where a Aberdeen claim is heard

The Aberdeen numbers

How busy the tribunal is

Where you live decides the tax rate

This is the point that matters most on an Aberdeen settlement, and it has nothing to do with the employment statute. The first £30,000 of a payment for loss of employment is covered by the threshold in section 403 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 wherever you are in the UK. The taxable part above it is income, and GOV.UK says Scottish Income Tax applies to wages and most other taxable income if you live in Scotland.

For 2026/27 the Scottish bands include an intermediate rate of 21% and a higher rate of 42% from £43,663. So the same settlement can leave a different net figure in Aberdeen than in Newcastle, and the difference falls entirely on the slice above £30,000 and on notice pay.

What decides it is your main home, not where you work. GOV.UK names offshore workers among the people who may need to work out which home counts, and says that where it is unclear you count the days spent in Scotland against the days elsewhere in the UK. If you work offshore or split your week, settle that question before you model the net figure. How the threshold works.

The highest pay of the Scottish cities here

The median full-time job located in Aberdeen pays more than the median job in Edinburgh or Glasgow — though over Edinburgh the margin is about a pound a week, which is to say the two are level. It sits above the statutory weekly cap by roughly a tenth of a week, so the redundancy formula trims a typical Aberdeen wage before it starts.

The gap between what Aberdeen jobs pay and what Aberdeen residents earn is wide, far wider than Edinburgh’s. A good share of the better-paid Aberdeen jobs are held by people who live outside the city. If you are one of them, the job figure describes your loss; the resident figure does not.

For an unfair dismissal claim the fifty-two-weeks’-pay limb still sets the practical ceiling on the compensatory award for a typical Aberdeen earner. How that limit works.

The Huntly Street hearing centre

Aberdeen claims are heard at the Aberdeen Tribunal Hearing Centre, 48 Huntly Street. HMCTS lists it for two areas of law, employment and social security, open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, counter included.

The listing is short on comfort and specific on access. There is no public car parking. Everyone is searched on entry. There is disabled access on the ground floor by a ramp with a slight incline, and the accessible toilets are on the first floor, reached by lift. Video conferencing is available, which is worth asking about for a preliminary hearing if you live some distance away.

The employment rights are the same as in the rest of Great Britain; what is different in Scotland sits underneath the tribunal and is set out on the Glasgow page and the Edinburgh page.

Scotland is a separate legal system with the same employment rights; the statutory sign-off can be done by any insured, unconnected qualified lawyer. What differs in Scotland · who pays for the advice.

Common questions about Aberdeen