Qualifying year pensions

curtis122

Silly question but it says -

For a qualifying year, you generally need to earn a minimum amount of money during a tax year (6 April to 5 April) and pay the required NI contributions. For 2019/20 these minimums are...

For employees: £118/week, £512/month, £6,136/year

For the self-employed: £123/week, £531/month, £6,365/year

Is this before tax or after? I did not work the full year last year and have been trying to work out if I had at least earnt £6,136 to make it a qualifying year and was looking at my payslips but I was adding up the net amount.

Eldi_Dos

My limited understanding is if you earn over £118 in any week you will be credited a NI credit for that week even if you did not earn enough to pay NI contributions.

xylophone

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5774173/earning-ni-qualifying-years-working-part-of-the-year&page=2
post 32.

jem16

curtis122 wrote: »

Is this before tax or after? I did not work the full year last year and have been trying to work out if I had at least earnt £6,136 to make it a qualifying year and was looking at my payslips but I was adding up the net amount.

It's the gross amount so before tax.