How much strike pay will I lose?

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Can anything point me in the direction of a calculator to work out how much pay I will lose for going on strike? Thanks

Isn’t it a days pay for a strike day? So you would lose whatever that is, minus taxes? Not sure anyone could tell you the exact amount without knowing how much is usually taken from your salary for tax, pensions/benefits etc.

I have no idea how to calculate a day's pay! Is it as simple as my salary / 365. Sorry for the stupid question I just didn't know if there was more to it.

You also need to know what your employer counts as a day's pay.

You might think that it's 1/30 of your monthly salary, but it could well be 1/20 if you work 'office hours' or could even by 1/13 of your monthly salary if you're on a typical NHS shift pattern where you do 3 or 4 long days each week.

In any case, once you know how much a day's pay is, you need to reduce your monthly salary by that amount, eg 12/13 x 30 x your salary. Then put the numbers into an online salary calculator to work home your take home to see the new amount. As you'll pay proportionately less tax, NI, pension and student loan if applicable it won't be like losing a full day's pay.

I don't know how true it is, but I've read that some unions pay strike pay, so it might be worth looking into if going on strike will cause significant financial hardship.

Are you a teacher?

It wouldn’t be divided by 365 as you don’t work 365 days per year. It depends on your working pattern. For mine, I take my annual salary, divide by 52, the divide by the number of hours I’m contracted for per week to get my hourly rate. Or annual salary divided by 52, then divided by 5 to get day rate.

Thanks @BarbaraofSeville that's useful

@Shinyandnew1 yes

@Overthebow I think the unions have said it is 1/365 🤷‍♀️

Teachers it is definitely 1/365, and I thought that was because it was some sort of statutory amount employers were allowed to deduct.

I wondered if you were. It is 1/365.

This is what the NEU say we’ll lose.

If you’re a teacher it’s definitely 1/365 of your annual salary. Which is weird but good news for you!

It’s weird that it’s 1/365 when teachers only get paid for 195 days per year. I would have thought it should be 1/195

Another one confirming it is 1/365th for teachers. DP is a teacher. We checked with the union.

That is strange, I never knew teachers were different.

Thanks @Shinyandnew1 I have seen this before. It's actually my husband who has a tlr and other additional payments so I didn't know if there was a way of calculating it from his monthly pay as this picture doesn't cover his full salary. I can sort of guess what it could be but it would be useful to know an actual figure for budgeting and such like. Thanks for your help :)

Take his monthly pay x12 and then divide by 365. It won’t be exact to the penny but should give you a close enough figure.

No worries, I wasn’t sure either-it was a bit confusing! I’ve not any TLRs (boo!) but I am part time which was also complicating things.

Isn't it then spread out across the year, like my colleagues who work term time only? So rather than not getting paid in the holidays they just get less salary year round. Like an average salary I suppose.

It’s spread out yes but teachers don’t get paid for the holidays. They get paid for 195 days a year. So their daily rate is quite high. It’s good that they’re only losing 1/365 or it would have been quite a bit more I imagine.

Courts previously were persuaded that teachers never stop working so therefore should only lose 1/365.

Conversely if a teacher who is part time works an extra day they are entitled to 1/195

It depends on the terms and.conditions. Teachers usually 1/365 due to case law and an ancient Act.

If people.can afford.tomlose several days' pay, they must be earning more than enough in the first place.

Hi, just wondering where you got this table from. I'd like to share with colleagues but wanted to check the source first. Thanks

It was sent by my NEU regional rep via email.