Working out a pro-rata salary

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Hi - just wondering if anyone can help - a potential job I am looking at would pay the full
time equivalent of £35,000 but I would be working three days a week and 40 weeks a year - does anyone have a rough idea of what salary I would end up with?

thanks 😊

40/52 = 0.77
3 days a week assuming you’re doing standard hours is 0.6 of a standard week

so £35k x 0.77 x 0.6 = £16,154 per annum before tax

However it’s not clear where your annual leave would come in - the figures above assume that the 12 weeks off per year are effectively unpaid. If some or all of this time is actually paid leave then it would be more.

Assuming that (a) the length of your working day is the same as for full time people and (b) all your 'annual leave" allowance is wrapped up into the 12 weeks a year that aren't part of your 40 weeks so you have no expectation of leace except those 12 weeks, then your FTE would be approximately 52% so your overall salary would be just over £18k. But if this is at a school and you are only there for school hours ie finishing at 3:30 there might be a further reduction to take into account the short days - but then you have to know what number of hours per week the organisation classifies as full time - some places use 40hrs, some 37.5, and various other possibilities.

@FeinCuroxiVooz how did you get 52%? I worked out that (40/52)*0.6 = 47%

Assuming £35,000 is for 52 weeks a yr and 5 days a week, pro rata for 40 weeks and 3 days a week is £16,153.8

But to check - will you be entitled to holidays writhin your 40 weeks - or are your holidays within the 12 additional weeks? Because you will accrue holidays you will be paid for also.

Here is the calculation for your info:
(40/52) * 35,000 = £26,923 - this calculates if how much you would earn for 40weeks full time.

But since you are working 3 out of 5 days, we now do
(3/5) * 26,923 = £16,153.8

Remember, this is gross. You will be pay small national insurance contributions and be taxed on everything over your personal allowance (I think the allowance is about £12k before you get taxed, so ~£4K will be subject to a small amount of tax)

Thank you so much!

Yes I am not sure about the holidays - I will ask when I meet with the school (yes it’s a school).

I am currently about to leave a school where the advertised salary (a good one for admin) was the actual salary though I do work 5 days a week.

I think the drop in salary will make this not doable - I am trying to work more part time temporarily so that I can fit in study time towards a diploma - but I am used to my 31K (gross) salary and use nearly all of that every month so I was a fool to even think of applying for this other job!!

Thanks again 😊

Interesting about the full length days - the hours would be 8.30 to 4.00pm so I think that would be classified as a full day?

I got to 52% because a full time worker is entitled to 5.6 weeks of annual leave per year.

The other calculations above seem to be assuming a full time worker has no leave.

A full time worker works on 232 days per year. a 3 day per week job for 40 weeks a year is 120 work days each year = 52%.

Another way to work it out would be to say that a 40 week per year working contract is effectively a 44.8 weeks per year contract with 4.8 weeks of paid annual leave and 7.2 weeks unpaid. thise 44.8 weeks are at 60% fte which multiplied by 44.8/52 is the same 52%