Tesco Night Pay, is this correct?

SneakySpectator

This uses the new I asked chatgpt

"I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. My hours a 10pm - 7am, except for 1 day where I finish at 6am. From the hours of 10pm - midnight I get paid £12.64 per hour, then from the hours of midnight - 6am I get paid an additional £2.35 per hour on top, but because I'm on my 1 hour break during that time I don't get the extra £2.35 for 1 of those hours.

Then from 6am - 7am I get £12.64 again. In total I work 160 hours and get paid every four weeks. Assuming no tax or deductions etc, how much money will I earn in total, and how much does it work out per hour on average?"




£15.37 per hour for nights in a supermarket is ok?

Bank holiday pay is 1.25x which I've not included because the days are not consistent etc.

I don't mind working nights, in fact I prefer it because no customers, listen to music, don't have to worry so much about trip hazards down your aisle, can dress more casual etc. 

But in terms of unskilled work that doesn't require some sort of education or paid training courses, is there really any better pay than this?

dumpster_fire2025

Are breaks paid? I've never experienced having paid breaks and a quick Google seems to show Tesco don't pay during breaks.

By my calculations, adjusting for the unpaid 1 hr break you'd actually get £27,652.58 p/a

To answer your question, for completely unskilled work you are extremely unlikely to beat it, but you also won't ever advance pay-wise in a role like this. For context it's about £10k less than the average salary. Great if you're 18, poor if you're 28, lousy if you're 38.

Edit: ChatGPT ironically states that this "Still averages £15.37 per hour" despite the fact that neither your base pay nor enhanced pay get as high as £15.37. AI again shows itself to be useless.

SneakySpectator

dumpster_fire2025 said:

Are breaks paid? I've never experienced having paid breaks and a quick Google seems to show Tesco don't pay during breaks.

By my calculations, adjusting for the unpaid 1 hr break you'd actually get £27,652.58 p/a

To answer your question, for completely unskilled work you are extremely unlikely to beat it, but you also won't ever advance pay-wise in a role like this. For context it's about £10k less than the average salary. Great if you're 18, poor if you're 28, lousy if you're 38.

Edit: ChatGPT ironically states that this "Still averages £15.37 per hour" despite the fact that neither your base pay nor enhanced pay get as high as £15.37. AI again shows itself to be useless.

No they don't pay for breaks that's why I've used the 160 hour calculation instead of 180 hours. I'm at work for 180 hours every four weeks but I only actually get paid for 160 of them, because I take 5 hours worth of breaks each week.

So the figure you're seeing takes unpaid breaks into consideration.

dumpster_fire2025

SneakySpectator said:

dumpster_fire2025 said:

Are breaks paid? I've never experienced having paid breaks and a quick Google seems to show Tesco don't pay during breaks.

By my calculations, adjusting for the unpaid 1 hr break you'd actually get £27,652.58 p/a

To answer your question, for completely unskilled work you are extremely unlikely to beat it, but you also won't ever advance pay-wise in a role like this. For context it's about £10k less than the average salary. Great if you're 18, poor if you're 28, lousy if you're 38.

Edit: ChatGPT ironically states that this "Still averages £15.37 per hour" despite the fact that neither your base pay nor enhanced pay get as high as £15.37. AI again shows itself to be useless.

No they don't pay for breaks that's why I've used the 160 hour calculation instead of 180 hours. I'm at work for 180 hours every four weeks but I only actually get paid for 160 of them, because I take 5 hours worth of breaks each week.

So the figure you're seeing takes unpaid breaks into consideration.

ChatGPT didn't though, it has you working for 9 hours a day.

You do 3 hours at £12.64 and 5 hours at £14.99. So averaging £14.11 per hour.

At 160 hours per month, that is £2257.40 a month.

12 months in the year equals £27,088.80 per annum. I think I missed the last hour at base pay in my original calculations.

Still, a lot closer to the true figure than ChatGPT that got it hideously wrong.

SneakySpectator

dumpster_fire2025 said:

SneakySpectator said:

dumpster_fire2025 said:

Are breaks paid? I've never experienced having paid breaks and a quick Google seems to show Tesco don't pay during breaks.

By my calculations, adjusting for the unpaid 1 hr break you'd actually get £27,652.58 p/a

To answer your question, for completely unskilled work you are extremely unlikely to beat it, but you also won't ever advance pay-wise in a role like this. For context it's about £10k less than the average salary. Great if you're 18, poor if you're 28, lousy if you're 38.

Edit: ChatGPT ironically states that this "Still averages £15.37 per hour" despite the fact that neither your base pay nor enhanced pay get as high as £15.37. AI again shows itself to be useless.

No they don't pay for breaks that's why I've used the 160 hour calculation instead of 180 hours. I'm at work for 180 hours every four weeks but I only actually get paid for 160 of them, because I take 5 hours worth of breaks each week.

So the figure you're seeing takes unpaid breaks into consideration.

ChatGPT didn't though, it has you working for 9 hours a day.

You do 3 hours at £12.64 and 5 hours at £14.99. So averaging £14.11 per hour.

At 160 hours per month, that is £2257.40 a month.

12 months in the year equals £27,088.80 per annum. I think I missed the last hour at base pay in my original calculations.

Still, a lot closer to the true figure than ChatGPT that got it hideously wrong.

Ah yes you are correct, but worth mentioning it's 13 months pay per year because we're paid every 4 weeks, not every month, so I think that's 29,346.20 per year.

dumpster_fire2025

SneakySpectator said:

dumpster_fire2025 said:

SneakySpectator said:

dumpster_fire2025 said:

Are breaks paid? I've never experienced having paid breaks and a quick Google seems to show Tesco don't pay during breaks.

By my calculations, adjusting for the unpaid 1 hr break you'd actually get £27,652.58 p/a

To answer your question, for completely unskilled work you are extremely unlikely to beat it, but you also won't ever advance pay-wise in a role like this. For context it's about £10k less than the average salary. Great if you're 18, poor if you're 28, lousy if you're 38.

Edit: ChatGPT ironically states that this "Still averages £15.37 per hour" despite the fact that neither your base pay nor enhanced pay get as high as £15.37. AI again shows itself to be useless.

No they don't pay for breaks that's why I've used the 160 hour calculation instead of 180 hours. I'm at work for 180 hours every four weeks but I only actually get paid for 160 of them, because I take 5 hours worth of breaks each week.

So the figure you're seeing takes unpaid breaks into consideration.

ChatGPT didn't though, it has you working for 9 hours a day.

You do 3 hours at £12.64 and 5 hours at £14.99. So averaging £14.11 per hour.

At 160 hours per month, that is £2257.40 a month.

12 months in the year equals £27,088.80 per annum. I think I missed the last hour at base pay in my original calculations.

Still, a lot closer to the true figure than ChatGPT that got it hideously wrong.

Ah yes you are correct, but worth mentioning it's 13 months pay per year because we're paid every 4 weeks, not every month, so I think that's 29,346.20 per year.

I'm going to re-revise it because I missed that you're not actually working 160 hours a month if 1 day a week is 7 hrs rather than 8. If you're working 8 hours a day, except 1 day when it is 7, then you're working 39 hours per week.

You do 3 hours at £12.64 and 5 hours at £14.99 most days except one. That is 14 hours at £12.64 and 25 at £14.99. That is £551.71 a week, divided by 39 hours equals £14.15 per hour

£551.71 a week x 52 weeks = £28,688.92 p/a

Unless, of course, the missing 1hr is paid but not worked which will alter the calculation a bit.

SneakySpectator

dumpster_fire2025 said:

SneakySpectator said:

dumpster_fire2025 said:

SneakySpectator said:

dumpster_fire2025 said:

Are breaks paid? I've never experienced having paid breaks and a quick Google seems to show Tesco don't pay during breaks.

By my calculations, adjusting for the unpaid 1 hr break you'd actually get £27,652.58 p/a

To answer your question, for completely unskilled work you are extremely unlikely to beat it, but you also won't ever advance pay-wise in a role like this. For context it's about £10k less than the average salary. Great if you're 18, poor if you're 28, lousy if you're 38.

Edit: ChatGPT ironically states that this "Still averages £15.37 per hour" despite the fact that neither your base pay nor enhanced pay get as high as £15.37. AI again shows itself to be useless.

No they don't pay for breaks that's why I've used the 160 hour calculation instead of 180 hours. I'm at work for 180 hours every four weeks but I only actually get paid for 160 of them, because I take 5 hours worth of breaks each week.

So the figure you're seeing takes unpaid breaks into consideration.

ChatGPT didn't though, it has you working for 9 hours a day.

You do 3 hours at £12.64 and 5 hours at £14.99. So averaging £14.11 per hour.

At 160 hours per month, that is £2257.40 a month.

12 months in the year equals £27,088.80 per annum. I think I missed the last hour at base pay in my original calculations.

Still, a lot closer to the true figure than ChatGPT that got it hideously wrong.

Ah yes you are correct, but worth mentioning it's 13 months pay per year because we're paid every 4 weeks, not every month, so I think that's 29,346.20 per year.

I'm going to re-revise it because I missed that you're not actually working 160 hours a month if 1 day a week is 7 hrs rather than 8. If you're working 8 hours a day, except 1 day when it is 7, then you're working 39 hours per week.

You do 3 hours at £12.64 and 5 hours at £14.99 most days except one. That is 14 hours at £12.64 and 25 at £14.99. That is £551.71 a week, divided by 39 hours equals £14.15 per hour

£551.71 a week x 52 weeks = £28,688.92 p/a

Unless, of course, the missing 1hr is paid but not worked which will alter the calculation a bit.

Yeah I think this is correct.