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theoretica

You are paid £100 a month for working 4 hours each week.

£100 x 12 months gives £1200

£1200 divided between 52 and a bit weeks is £23.00 each week

£23.00 for four hours is £5.75 an hour- is this what you think you should be paid?

jimmo

theoretica wrote: »

You are paid £100 a month for working 4 hours each week.

£100 x 12 months gives £1200

£1200 divided between 52 and a bit weeks is £23.00 each week

£23.00 for four hours is £5.75 an hour- is this what you think you should be paid?

Good point.

When you were paid weekly how much was your weekly wage and how much tax was taken off?

McKneff

is this an extra job to your normal job. If it is your only job i wouldnt think you should be paying tax

bizzy_izzy

I work 2 days a week, and it is a second job, and the pay is £6 + an hr And i was not paid weekly they had changed it to monthly, I spoke to the lady who had job before me and she got paid weekly a little less than i get, but i thought wages had gone up

LittleVoice

£6 per hour for 4 hours per week = £24 per week
£24 x 52 (weeks) = £1248 per annum
£1248 divided by 12 (months) = £104 per month

Tax (20%) would reduce that to £79.20 (£20.80 tax).

You indicate that you are paid a little more (pence) than £6 so £100 gross (£80 nett) looks about right. They probably rounded things to £1200 gross on an annual basis to make things simple.

By the way you are also entitled to paid holiday included within your regular hours. You will be entitled to a minimum of 4.8 weeks pro rata for the year to 31 March and to 5.6 weeks thereafter. That is of your weeks - 4 hours. They may want to round up to whole (two-hour) days to make things easy.

theoretica

LittleVoice wrote: »

£6 per hour for 4 hours per week = £24 per week
£24 x 52 (weeks) = £1248 per annum
£1248 divided by 12 (months) = £104 per month

This is correct, however deducting 20% tax should give £83 + some pennies. It is about right, but are the offices closed for two weeks of the year in addition to your holiday?

LittleVoice wrote: »

Tax (20%) would reduce that to £79.20 (£20.80 tax).

You unfortunately deducted the tax due on £104 from a wage of £100.

bizzy_izzy

sorry i know it is a lot of fuss for such a litlle amount, but thanks for all your replys, yes i get the paid holidays as well as the office is closed over xmas and they still pay me, BUT I still don't understand why when it was weekly the other cleaner was getting paid every week but now it is like i miss a weeks pay.Can i just say in my full time time job i get paid every 4th thursday so in the year it it is 13pays

theoretica

Would it help to think that in the 4 week months you are being a little bit over paid and in the 5 week months a little under paid so it all comes right at the end? Each time you are paid it is for about 4 and 1/3 weeks, so when you do the work and when you are paid do not exactly match. If you had 13 pays instead of the 12 you would be getting slightly less in each one as you would be paid for only 4 weeks not the 4 1/3.

A similar thing happens with bills- an example would be my phone line rental which is the same each month so I pay more for each day in the shorter months than I do in the longer ones.

theoretica

While being paid in 12 equal lots can work out fairly there is still the question if you are getting the right amount each month.

If your expected hourly wage is £6.25 (you did not tell us what above £6 you were promised) then you are, as you think, being only paid for 4 weeks each month which is not good.

£6.25 x 4 hours = £25 a week
£25 x 4 weeks = £100

LittleVoice

theoretica wrote: »

You unfortunately deducted the tax due on £104 from a wage of £100.

Not enough sleep last night!

bizzy izzy - you need to look at the written particulars which your employer is required to give you no later than two months after you start work for them. One of the things included is the rate of pay.