Salary Question

LegalCashier

Hi all,

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but I was looking for some help regarding my pay at a new job. I believe I am being incorrectly...

My contract states:
37 hours per week
Term time only, plus 4 weeks and plus 5 staff training days
£23,990.00 per annum full time
Pro rata'd = £22,420.05

This will change from 30th April to:
"The position will countinue to be for 37 hours per week and your salary will be £24,473 p.a. The pro rata'd sary will amount to £22,527.49 (FTE 0.9205)

Pay day is 25th every month unless on the weekend and it will the closest weekday.

I started my new job 13th March and my first pay was 24th March:
Salary: £1,107.31
P.A.Y.E.: £23.40
N.I.: £52.24
Pension: £71.98
Take home: £959.69

Just got my pay check due to be paid tomorrow (25/4):
Salary: £1,772.66
P.A.Y.E.: £142.00
N.I.: £131.12
Pension: £102.81
Take home: £1,396.73

I believe my pension contribution is 6.5%, it's worth adding my contract was initially wrong as they had me down working less over the year.

From my contract I make that my salary should be £1,868.34 before deductions (£1,877.28 after 30th April)

Any help would be gratefully appreciated!!

Thanks,
L

zagfles

You'll have to ask them how they calculate term time only working over the year. Trying to spread term time only contracts over a year (so you get paid the same every month) really doesn't work properly for people who join mid-year, or do a partial year, my wife's had the same problems.

For instance, they might say as you joined in March, the proportion of the remainder of the acdemic year (usually to 31 Aug) which you'll work will be less than the average proportion of a full year (due to the summer holidays).

You need to talk to someone it payroll who actually understands how it works (good luck as most payroll clerks these days don't seem to have a clue, they just feed the numbers in and let the software do the calculations).

susieq87

at £22k a year your take home will be around the £1500 bracket, how did you work out an get £1800?

bingo_bango

£22,420.05 / 12 = £1868.34 which OP stated was before deductions, not take home.

Edit: The pension contribution is 5.5%, not 6.5%.

That should give you a take home figure of £1461.57. However, it looks like they may have taken a day (£95.68) off you for something, which has brought your monthly gross down.

Was there a day you had off at Easter that didn't fall into your working pattern or something?