Payday 30 March 2022 at 8:39AM in Employment, jobseeking & training 7 replies 182 views

davidoff677

Hi, so a brief overview of my concern. I always get paid on the last wednesday of the month. I put my timesheet in on the wednesday before. Usually it's ok i get 20 working days plus any overtime i did. I'll add that i am paid hourly and not salary like most people in the company i am on the tools while they're in the office. This month my timesheet started on the 17th of february and ended on the 23rd march which added up to 25 working days. Basically a 5 week pay month yet i still got paid for the 20 days like normal. Is there something i am missing here? I spoke to one of the people that deals with it and he tried to explain to me that i get paid the same amount every month which i don't see how this works if i worked 5 days more this month like stated on my timesheet. I am really confused at this point and want to get some advice before i proceed to chase it further. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask, i might have missed something here.
Thanks in advance  

Penguin_

Are you paid via hourly rate or salaried?

SeagullFTB

It's possible that they take your annual earnings and divide in by 12 to get an equal monthly amount over the year and then add on any overtime each month.

For example, if you work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week at £10 per hour. Your annual earnings would be £20,800 (£10 x 8 hours x 5 days x 52 weeks). They would then split this in 12 equal payments of £1733.33 and it would always be this amount regardless of number of days/weeks in the month. Any overtime would then be paid on top.

davidoff677

Like i mentioned i am paid hourly. 

davidoff677

SeagullFTB said:

It's possible that they take your annual earnings and divide in by 12 to get an equal monthly amount over the year and then add on any overtime each month.

For example, if you work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week at £10 per hour. Your annual earnings would be £20,800 (£10 x 8 hours x 5 days x 52 weeks). They would then split this in 12 equal payments of £1733.33 and it would always be this amount regardless of number of days/weeks in the month. Any overtime would then be paid on top.

That is exactly how he tried to explain it to me. Is all this correct? I really was expected to get paid for the 25 days instead of 20 this month as i had to wait 5 weeks to get paid.

General_Grant

davidoff677 said:

SeagullFTB said:

It's possible that they take your annual earnings and divide in by 12 to get an equal monthly amount over the year and then add on any overtime each month.

For example, if you work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week at £10 per hour. Your annual earnings would be £20,800 (£10 x 8 hours x 5 days x 52 weeks). They would then split this in 12 equal payments of £1733.33 and it would always be this amount regardless of number of days/weeks in the month. Any overtime would then be paid on top.

That is exactly how he tried to explain it to me. Is all this correct? I really was expected to get paid for the 25 days instead of 20 this month as i had to wait 5 weeks to get paid.

Does your payslip show base pay and overtime pay separately?

Look back over previous payslips and compare with how much overtime you have done.

If they are taking your contracted hours and calculating your annual pay and paying that equally over the 12 months then that, in effect, is being salaried.  

[People who are salaried can nevertheless calculate an hourly rate by dividing their annual pay by 52 and then by the number of hours they are contracted to work per week.]

SeagullFTB

davidoff677 said:

That is exactly how he tried to explain it to me. Is all this correct? I really was expected to get paid for the 25 days instead of 20 this month as i had to wait 5 weeks to get paid.

If they have calculated it this way and done it it correctly, then yes, it's correct. It's often done to make it easier for people to budget their money as they receive the same basic pay each month.

davidoff677

General_Grant said:

davidoff677 said:

SeagullFTB said:

It's possible that they take your annual earnings and divide in by 12 to get an equal monthly amount over the year and then add on any overtime each month.

For example, if you work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week at £10 per hour. Your annual earnings would be £20,800 (£10 x 8 hours x 5 days x 52 weeks). They would then split this in 12 equal payments of £1733.33 and it would always be this amount regardless of number of days/weeks in the month. Any overtime would then be paid on top.

That is exactly how he tried to explain it to me. Is all this correct? I really was expected to get paid for the 25 days instead of 20 this month as i had to wait 5 weeks to get paid.

Does your payslip show base pay and overtime pay separately?

Look back over previous payslips and compare with how much overtime you have done.

If they are taking your contracted hours and calculating your annual pay and paying that equally over the 12 months then that, in effect, is being salaried.  

[People who are salaried can nevertheless calculate an hourly rate by dividing their annual pay by 52 and then by the number of hours they are contracted to work per week.]

Yes this is how they do it, i get a base salary (as it says on my payslip) and then any overtime is added separately on top of that. That in effect means i am on a salary basis instead of an hourly basis like it is stated in my contract. Am i right? Should i do anything about it? Any pros and cones of this being the way it is?