Confused regarding pro rate salary

Deva2005

Hi all,

Just looking for some advice about pro rata hours and salary.

My wife has just been offered a role in a school, 37.5 hours and she has been told full time is £17,000 and pro rata £14,500

We can't understand how this is worked out as we assume 37.5 hours IS full time!?

If anyone has any ideas, please can you let me know about this as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance
David

theoretica

I expect the part time/pro rata is not part of each week, but part of the year, and she is not needed during school holidays.

Deva2005

Ok, but I am still a little confused as I assumed school posts were paid through out the year including holidays......maybe I got this wrong?

It still seems difficult to understand ��

marcarm

9 months salary is paid over 12 months, so you get paid every month but obviously do not get paid for the time that you are not working.

(figures rounded for examples)

So £17k earned full time with 'normal' holiday allowance, but with the school downtime this equates to £14.5k, which will be paid over the year and not just the months that are worked.

getmore4less

Without knowing how many weeks she will be working you can't workout if it is correct

As a rough estimate £14.5k would be around 44.35 weeks including holiday pay so around 39.6 weeks working

Undervalued

david.richards27 wrote: »

Ok, but I am still a little confused as I assumed school posts were paid through out the year including holidays......maybe I got this wrong?

It still seems difficult to understand ��

They generally are but a normal salary assumes you only get the statutory 5.6 weeks (28 days) holiday.

If she only works school terms (??) then she gets more than double that amount of holiday so the salary is reduced accordingly.

If, hypothetically, they started to need her to work for much of the school holidays so that she only got 28 days leave per year then she would get the full salary.

mazzg48

[FONT=&quot]School term time part time workers have a formula applied to the full time salary to include the holiday and bank holiday entitlement. This then produces the annual pro rata amount. Have a look at your wife's contract. Dependent on whether she is term time, term time plus one week, plus two weeks etc the formula changes as well as the amount for under five years service and over five years service.

In the local authority I worked for it was also dependent on what point of the salary scale people were on. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This pro rata amount will then be equated over 12 months.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I have worked out that your wife is probably term time plus one under five years service from the full time salary you have given. Below is the formula I have copied below from paperwork I had when I was working in a school assuming 21 days leave -[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Term time + 1 21*41/47.942 = 17.959/5 + 41 = 44.591 * 7/365 = .855%[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]So £17000 Full time /37.5*37.5*44.591 * 7/365 = £14537 or use the percentage £17000 * 855% [/FONT]