Can Anyone Work Out What My Hourly Wage Is (School Term Time Job)

stressedoutmum

I am currently covering maternity leave at a school. I started on 1st November 2010 and finish on 23rd July 2011. I work 30 hours a week and my pro rata pay is £9276.73 which they divide into 12 equal months even though I am only there approx 9 months?? The monthly pay is £773.06 top line before NI and Tax. I think the annual pay is around £13,338.

No one seems to know the formula they use in schools and how they work out the pay. I would like to know what my hourly rate is as I am looking for other jobs when this one expires but they always advertise the hourly rate and I would like to know what mine is to compare. I am also curious to find out if its just minimum pay I am on or higher.

I have asked the other office staff and they don't know the hourly rate but I would like to know. thanks.

Googlewhacker

how many hours do you work in the week times how many weeks you are working and then divide this figure into the total amount of money you will earn (ignore the 12 month payment)

paddedjohn

£5.95 approx

stressedoutmum

I'm employed 39 weeks overall but 6 weeks of that are school holidays (2 weeks xmas, 1 week Feb, 2 weeks Easter and 1 week in May this year) so do I take the 39 weeks into account or knock the holidays off and am I paid for school holidays and if not do you then get a holiday allowance built into your pay please.

Paddedjohn: how did you get to £8.14 per hour please

paddedjohn

Sorry ive edited it

stressedoutmum

I worked out £13333 per annum divided by 38 weeks (actual weeks worked in a school year) divided by 37 hours = £9.48 per hour and that seemed a lot so tried:

£13333 divided by 52 weeks divided by 37 hrs per week (which is their full time hours) = £6.92

but I'm sure they are all wrong.

GavB79

To calculate your hourly rate, take the full-time equivalent salary, i.e £13,338, and divide by 1929.287 = £6.91/hr.

Edit: They are being sneaky if they are only paying you to the 23rd July; if you are working to the last day of term you should be paid to the 31st August. Especially if the person you are covering isn't coming back until Sept. 1st!

paddedjohn

The op has told us she gets £773.06 per month, this is 1/12th of £9276.83, why is the figure of £13338 mentioned?

stressedoutmum

Paddedjohn: The figure of £13338 is the annual salary based on a 37 hour working week. I work 30 hours per week and they've worked it out as pro rata £9276.73

GavB7 - Where does the 1929.287 come from?? Also can you explain why should I be paid to end of August if the last day of term is July so I can take them up on it. The girl on maternity isnt coming back until 1st September -


so am I £6.92 per hour or £5.95 - its all confusing.

Also does anyone know why the annual salary is divided by 52 weeks when schools only work 39 weeks?

Spendless

stressedoutmum wrote: »

Paddedjohn: The figure of £13338 is the annual salary based on a 37 hour working week. I work 30 hours per week and they've worked it out as pro rata £9276.73

GavB7 - Where does the 1929.287 come from?? Also can you explain why should I be paid to end of August if the last day of term is July so I can take them up on it. The girl on maternity isnt coming back until 1st September -


so am I £6.92 per hour or £5.95 - its all confusing.

Also does anyone know why the annual salary is divided by 52 weeks when schools only work 39 weeks?

Yes, so you have a wage each month, instead of short ones, and full pay ones. Alos, some staff eg teachers are paid for all year, whereas I suspect you are support staff? And on a term-time only contract?

I volunteered in a school office and asked the sec to explain the pay structure, she worked term-time plus got so much holidays as she'd been there many years so they took her term time pay plus her few weeks holiday pay and then divided them by 12 so she got the same amount of wages each month.

I *think* you need to deduct the school holidays weeks from the overall weeks you are employed there, as they are unpaid, once you divided your salary by term time only weeks, then by the hours you work each week you should have your hourly rate.

BTW doesn't it say on your wages slip? Cos my hourly rate used to show when I worked on a school at lunchtime.

stressedoutmum

No it doesnt say anything about hourly pay on my pay slip. I am support staff (admin) and work term time only. All my payslip says is

(salary 9276.73) 773.06

then tax and insurance are taken off but nothing of hourly pay. It is a very basic slip. At the top it gives you all your tax info etc so would my pay then be:

9276/32/30 = £9.66 per hour??

Also Ive read somewhere that school pays is calculated over 39 weeks term time plus 4 weeks holiday entitlement plus bank hols etc = 46 weeks per year. Would the rate then be
£13338/46/30