The Salesforce severance package on offer during the company’s latest round of layoffs appears to give departing US employees a noticeably softer landing than many of their Big Tech counterparts. As the company trims its workforce again, internal documents suggest its payout terms are among the more generous in the industry.

A More Generous Exit Than Most

Internal materials reviewed by Business Insider indicate that eligible US workers can receive up to 30 weeks of severance. That figure outpaces the packages recently offered by several major technology firms, including Oracle, Amazon, and Block.

Salesforce began notifying affected employees on Monday, according to people familiar with the situation and a regulatory filing in California. The cuts arrive against an uneasy backdrop, with growing concern that AI tools and agents could eventually replace traditional software, including Salesforce’s flagship customer relationship management product. The pressure is showing up in the company’s stock, which has fallen more than 30% so far this year.

How the Severance Is Calculated

Salesforce ties its severance payments to three factors: an employee’s level, their tenure, and their age. The structure works in layers.

Base pay by seniority breaks down as follows:

• Senior directors and director-level staff receive 13 weeks of base pay.
• Senior managers and below receive 9 weeks.
• Employees aged 60 or older, at any level, get an additional four weeks.

On top of that, workers earn an extra three weeks of pay for each year of service, with any partial year counted as a full year. Departing employees also receive six months of COBRA health coverage, extended to 12 months for those aged 60 and older.

There are limits, however. The combined total of level-based and tenure-based pay is capped at 26 weeks, rising to 30 weeks for employees who are 60 or older.

How It Compares to Rivals

What makes the Salesforce package stand out is how it measures up against recent offers from other major tech employers.

Here’s how the competition compares:

• Oracle recently gave laid-off US workers four weeks of base salary plus one week per additional year of employment, capped at 26 weeks.
• Block, which cut nearly half its workforce earlier this year, offered 20 weeks of salary plus one extra week per year of tenure.
• Amazon’s January layoffs came with full pay and benefits for 90 days, along with an additional severance component.

Against that field, Salesforce’s terms generally come out ahead, particularly for longer-tenured and older employees who benefit from the extra weeks built into the formula.

A Difficult Moment for the Company

The layoffs reflect broader anxiety rippling through the software industry, where the rise of AI is raising hard questions about the future of traditional products and the workforce behind them. For Salesforce, a company whose core business sits squarely in the path of that disruption, the stakes are especially high.

Salesforce did not respond to requests for comment on the layoffs or its severance terms.

While losing a job is never easy, the relative generosity of the Salesforce severance package may offer affected employees at least some financial cushion as they navigate an increasingly uncertain tech job market.