Pro Rata information please Dinner ladies help!

kms26

Hi,

I went for an interview recently and was very lucky to get the job.

The job is a supervisory assistant (dinner lady). I have received a letter today from the council who i will be working for. On the letter it says:

Salary Grade: Band B (Point 9) = £13,746 (pro rata)

Now i will be working 6 hours a week, £7.50 per hour on a permanent contract

So what does the pro rata mean? How much will i be getting a month?
TIA

embob74

It would depend on whether they will pay you only when you have worked or split the payments equally over the year.
Some schools pay the annual wage in 12 equal monthly installments but one school I worked at paid the annual wage in 11 monthly installments and we didn't get any money for the month of August as that was holidays.
It will vary from school to school I imagine so you really need to clarify with the employer.
You should probably check what happens about teacher training days and Bank Holidays too.

kms26

What i am confused bout is £13,746 divided by 12 is £1,145.50 well that doesn't add up to 6 hours a week at £7.50 an hour?? LOL

LittleVoice

Presumably the £13,746 is what a full-time person on that grade/band/point would earn in a year.

The "pro rata" means that your hourly rate would equal the same as the hourly rate for a full-time person.

To see whether that does equate to £7.50/hour, you need to know what number of hours a week a full-timer is expected to work. Do you know whether a full-time person works 35, 37.5, 40 or some other number of hours in a normal week?

agrinnall

No, but you'll probably find that had you been working full time then £7.50 per hour equates to £13,746 per year (it works out at around 35.25 hours per week).

embob74

Oops sorry misunderstood the question. The £13,746 is the full time equivalent rate based on 35 (ish) hours. What you normally do to find out your rate is divide the full time rate by however many hours they class as full time and then multiply by the number of hours you will work each week.
But you don't need to do any of those sums as they have provided your hourly rate - £7.50. So you will get £7.50 for each hour you work. Not the full time monthly rate of £1145.50 unfortunately :rotfl:

GwylimT

Do you know how many weeks of the year you will be work, I will have to guess that it is just the time that children are in.

Taking the hourly wage you have posted and the hours worked you will receive £45 per week, the pro rate rate is what you would get if you were working full time. Some schools pay you for 12 months, others don't, that is something I would definitely clarify with your employer so you know to put away for an unpaid month if you need to.

You can see this by taking your hourly wage, times by seven to assume that full time work is around seven hours a day, times that by five to assume you work five days a week and then times that by 52 and you get £13650.

If you aren't use to pro-rate it can be a little confusing.

cr1mson

This is how my local authority would calculate it.

7.50x6=45
45x42.67 (number of weeks worked 38 plus holiday entitlement) which gives you your annual wage of 1920.15
This would then be divided by 12 to get your monthly wage which would be 160.01.