Any part time teachers around?

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Considering dropping a day or two.

I am currently UPS3 but no other allowances. I’m wondering what my take home would be on 0.6 or 0.8.

Would anybody mind sharing?

Bear in mind, they probably won’t guarantee you full days off in secondary. So 0.6 could involve going in 4 days and 0.8 could involve being in all 5. And it could vary each year. Not trying to put you off, but the reality often isn’t full days off.

Other things to check are what the school approach is to meetings or INSET etc in days you don’t work, or if you’re in every day whilst pastime, are you expected to be at all meetings?

Check carefully how many periods a full time teacher with your responsibility is expected to teach. Ensure any offer is properly pro-rata’d.

It’s definitely worth looking into and trying. In most secondary situations, if you manage to get it agreed, and if you’re good and later want to be full time, you usually don’t have a problem returning to full time.

Some places will say the amount of teaching you get each year will vary. Part timers are used to plug gaps and so if they have lots of staff in your Dept one year, you might get lots less work. So there often isn’t certainty over amount of work or days.

Schools are all different, @WombatChocolate - ours have full days. I’m sure people are meaning to be helpful but I was asking about pay, not general advice about part time.

The TES website has a really good pay calculator uploaded by a user caller tafkam, it's always been accurate for me within £20 or so.

Well, you know your currentsalary. You can calculate it for 0.8 or 0.6. There are lots of online calculators that will adjust for tax and NI. You look on TPS website to see the pension contributions you’d make at the new salary level. Easy….you can see an exact figure then, rather than something that other people have and will vary from yours. You’re welcome.

I have never been able to find that! I’ve heard it mentioned though! I assumed it got lost when the community bit went kaput.

www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pay-calculator-11697797

You just need an account to download.

@WombatChocolate if I offended you in some way then I apologise. I just really don’t see that there’s much to be gained from people posting long replies about how it is at their school - I’m not saying they can’t, but it isn’t really what I’m asking.

It may be easy for you but sadly it is not for me - I haven’t a clue how to work it out, hence asking on here!

Thanks @daisychainsandrainbows. Will have a look now.

I was on outer London L4 which is £49,026 full time. When I was full-time my take home after pension contributions and student loan repayments (I should say I'm on Plan 1 AND Plan 2 for student loan) was £2532 and on 0.6 it went down to £1732

Hope that gives you an idea of the proportions.

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Are you 0.6, *@Lamby1234*?

Yes, sorry 0.6.

Thanks, all. This has been really helpful.

I am considering dropping a day next year and then two days after my second maternity leave if we manage to TTC successfully.

0.8, take home £2000 pcm.
Personally, brilliant decision for spending time with DC, family responsibilities and for fulfilling work ones.
Reconciled myself to no career progression though! But that is not my priority.

I do 0.6, 3 whole days in primary. There's a massive difference in responsibility between 3 days and 4. Doing 3 days means I have a teaching partner who takes on 2/5 of the responsibilities for assessments, report writing, parents evenings etc, and this is what makes 3 days so good. If I worked 4 days I think I'd be spending a lot of my day off working! I'm ups3 and take home £1600

Hi, I went back 0.8 following my maternity leave and was paid UPS3 plus TLR2b for Head of English. Take home pay around £2200. I had a free a day and worked 8 until 5 in school on the 4 days I was in - I always kept my day off for my son and I to enjoy.

I now work in SEMH as Head of English. I'm full time but I go in at 8.30 (kids come in from 9 in taxis), and usually work until 5. 30 2 days a week, then leave by 3.30/4 the remaining days. No more than 6 per class, no emails/work/marking after the end of the working day or over weekends/ holidays.

I found mainstream secondary completely incompatible with being a mum and left an assistant head position with dd1 as I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Xx

Thanks so much. That’s really helpful.

I’m not arsed about career progression either - just hope I don’t get managed out if we ever have a change in head or similar!

I’m three full days, UPS 3, lowest TLR, never actually got round to working out if they pay me three fifths of my TLR for doing the whole job still.

Take home around £1685.

Have a toddler and very lucky to have a husband who can pick up the financial slack because even three days is a challenge at the moment.

I’m ups 3 and work 2 days. I bring home £1290 per month x

I went to 0.6 and three days a week - UPS 2 and take home just over £1500.
I might be calculating that incorrectly because I am deducting my money for TLRs (not a Maths teacher 😂)
It was a hit to take but it made it sustainable for me.

No, nor me - haven’t a bloody clue now to work it all out! Peoples replies have been so helpful though. It looks like a drop of one day (0.8) is to around £2000, and to drop two days is £1600. Top of scale is just under £2400, so each day is approximately worth £400 a month.

UPS 3 on 0.8 is £2003 with no additional tlr or London weighting.

If you can afford it, I’d do 0.6.

We can but pension and maternity pay are a consideration.

Also, I’m undecided on schooling for the future - would have to go back full time if we decided on private. So many pros and cons!

0.8 ups3 no student loans and in the TPS - £2000 take home.

Have Monday off every week. It's bliss. I also do exam marking to top up.

I agree with you -It's not easy to calculate as tax varies so much as you decrease income etc. Martin Lewis was good but need to know pension %.

If you go in maternity money you could compare mat pay for full and part time by using the calculators in there. Probs won't work out that much different.

No, and it’s only for the first four and a half months anyway!