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Need a little advice, my take home pay is different to whats calculated...
I earn 38K a year. According to the calculator my PAYE should be £423.83 and NI £169.53
But the actual deductions were £441.20 and £176.49
Not wildly different but nearly a weeks shopping.
But I also have a NEST payment of 109.37 and my total income this month came to £2527.11, but the calculator brings it to £ 2,573.31.... Tbh Im finding this odd discrepancies more confusing than troubling. I dont think the work place is doing anything dodgy, just things are being calculated differently...
Whats your thoughts? Should I be worried?
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You shouldn't be worried but unless you know how the calculator is built it's difficult to get the correct answer.MangyDog said:So I've been using this https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php to calculate my take home pay estimates...
I earn 38K a year. According to the calculator my PAYE should be £423.83 and NI £169.53
But the actual deductions were £441.20 and £176.49
Not wildly different but nearly a weeks shopping.
But I also have a NEST payment of 109.37 and my total income this month came to £2527.11, but the calculator brings it to £ 2,573.31.... Tbh Im finding this odd discrepancies more confusing than troubling. I dont think the work place is doing anything dodgy, just things are being calculated differently...
Whats your thoughts? Should I be worried?
Does your payslip show your taxable and NIC'ble pay as £3166.66?
What is your tax code?
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1257L
As for the other question i cant see anything.... my gross was 3254.170 -
ok......... maybe im actually being paid 39k
I realign the take home calc to 39 and everything nearly lines up... a few pennies off but otherwise... Yeah that might make sense. 0 -
MangyDog said:ok......... maybe im actually being paid 39k 3254.17 x 12 is 39050.04 so yes, i seems you are
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MangyDog said:I'd suggest leaving it, it's not doing any harm and no-one is going to think any the less of you as a result
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Not wasting time, well worth it given you have had a £1,000 pay rise this afternoon 😉MangyDog said:3 -
The thread was started last year and swiftly resolved the same day, with an entirely different root cause from the one you're belatedly suggesting!
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I'm 50/50 on helpful but misguided or an AI repeating bot, their only other post also reads the an AI answer
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Small differences like this are common and don't necessarily mean anything's wrong. Two likely explanations for the tax/NI gap: your actual tax code might differ slightly from the standard assumption (1257L) most calculators default to, and NI can come out slightly different pay-period-to-pay-period versus how some tools annualize it — neither points to an error on your employer's part.
For the pension-related difference, worth checking whether your NEST contribution is "relief at source" (deducted after tax) — that's the most common auto-enrolment setup, and it's a separate calculation layer some calculators skip entirely, which could easily explain the gap you're seeing.
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