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New employer wages to hourly rate sums check please

Hello All,
I am taking on a job this summer and the employer offered me an annual salary of £18,500. Due to child care I requested 37 hour week instead of 40. The have calculated my wages and given me an hourly rate of 8.89. They have worked it out as 18500/52 (weeks)=355.77/40 hours (as they say it is unfair to other workers to divide mine by 37 hours. They say I will clock in and clock out so will be paid depending on how many hours I work. I don't mind this but want to know if that hourly rate is right please?

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  • harrys_dad
    harrys_dad Posts: 1,997 Forumite
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    That seems right to me. If you work 37 hours a week at that rate you will earn 37/40 of the annual salary for 37/40 of the work. You need to check that they pay you the equivalent of 37 hours a week for holidays too.
  • AP007
    AP007 Posts: 7,109 Forumite
    edited 12 June 2013 at 7:13PM
    OP works out to £17,104.36pa, yes?
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  • AP007
    AP007 Posts: 7,109 Forumite
    krissy08 wrote: »
    Hello All,
    I am taking on a job this summer and the employer offered me an annual salary of £18,500. Due to child care I requested 37 hour week instead of 40. The have calculated my wages and given me an hourly rate of 8.89. They have worked it out as 18500/52 (weeks)=355.77/40 hours (as they say it is unfair to other workers to divide mine by 37 hours. They say I will clock in and clock out so will be paid depending on how many hours I work. I don't mind this but want to know if that hourly rate is right please?
    Yeah they divided by 40 as that's the regular working week to get the hourly rate but then since you are only going to do 37 you get the 40 hour salary pro rata which is as I have posted above here.
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  • ohreally
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    krissy08 wrote: »
    The have calculated my wages and given me an hourly rate of 8.89

    I get the rate to £8.87 ph.
    Don’t be a can’t, be a can.
  • liney
    liney Posts: 5,121 Forumite
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    £18500/52 weeks/40 hours = £8.89ph.

    You will earn 37hours x £8.89 x 52 weeks = £17104.36 per annum.
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  • liney
    liney Posts: 5,121 Forumite
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    ohreally wrote: »
    I get the rate to £8.87 ph.

    Never mind: you divided by 52.14.
    "On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.
  • krissy08
    krissy08 Posts: 389 Forumite
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    Thanks everyone! Much appreciated
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