To wonder what job people do if they get good maternity pay?

[Aliveinwanderland]

I have heard time and time again about women getting 6 months full pay, even a year full pay, for maternity leave!

What job do these women do??? Seriously I am tempted by a career change!

I'd stick with the teaching. The amount you will pay in child care for 4 children over school holidays x 7 ish years will far out weigh full pay on mat leave.

9 months full pay here then stat for the remaining.

High street bank, any role. They also do a good role reversal thing - if both parents work for the bank the dad can take paternity leave at full pay for 9 months (minus the statutory 2 weeks).

I work for a charity and get 6 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half and then down to SMP :-( And they wonder why I'm going back at 6 months..

Someone told me years ago that IBM pay women returning to work after mat leave 150% of their salary for the first year, in an attempt to avoid losing skilled staff. But IBM have very few actual employees- most of their staff are contractors.

I get 12 weeks full pay then 27 weeks SMP, working for a scientific company. My last company was SMP only, which doesn't seem to be unusual

Civil service can mean:

HMRC
DWP
DFID

government jobs

6 months full pay, oil and gas sector multinational.
Fairly sure it used to be 6 months full, 6 months half but since parental leave came in they reduced the package but made it the same for parental leave as maternity.

I worked for British Gas. Everyone got 6 months full pay.

I also got passed return but got paid full pay. So started doing me a few hours a week working my way up to full time again. And I told them what hours I wanted work and they found a job that would suit. Luckily my job was suitable to change hours.

You even got 6 months full pay sick leave. There was loads of benefits. When people were very sick (like cancer) they often extended sick pay over the 6 months.

Government - 6months full, 3SMP then then three unpaid. Plus the option to then take all your accrued leave, bank holidays and privilege days.

And I know people who STILL Moan that it's not good enough!!

I'm probably going to take the six full pay, three SMP then a combination of non paid plus my accrued leave to take me up to a full year.

Once I'm back in work I will be dropping my hours to three days a week until the baby starts school, then I will be switching to part time hours (9-2 most likely) to allow me to do school pick ups and I won't be working any of the school holidays. Will probably go back up to full time working once they start secondary school.

We are so lucky to work for somewhere that supports flexible working because childcare costs would CRIPPLE us. Honestly can't recommend the public sector enough for family life balance.

Wow. I work in financial services. Lucky to get 12 weeks full pay & 6 mths half. But we do get guaranteed pt work if returning from mat/adoption leave & can get promoted as part time.

Call centre. Needed two years' service to qualify for the enhanced package, which was 6 months full and the remaining 6 months statutory...or maybe half?... I think. Was 8 years ago.

Rail industry - any role.
9 months full pay for mat leave or adoption leave. Further 3 months at nil pay if desired. It's excellent and I was very fortunate.

Fortune 500's usually give good maternity benefits. It used to be the case that the defence industry were particularly bad but they've made a sea change and we're now seeing really progressive benefit packages. Mine is currently 6 months full pay and a further 3 months at 50%.

6 months full pay then 7 weeks smp. Biologist for a scientific research company.

I used to work in a British Gas call centre, (salary of around £20k plus bonus)
I got 6 months full pay and 3 months SMP. I hated the job but stuck it out until I knew I wasn't having any more children as I knew I wouldn't get maternity pay like that elsewhere.

I work in the public sector and get 6 weeks 90%, 12 weeks 50%, then stat. So better than stat but nowhere near 6months full or half pay.

It always surprised me that there is such disparity between the maternity packages for public sector organisations. Why does the civil service get a better deal than the nhs when ultimately the pay is coming from the same source?

Fwiw I'm nhs so get 8 weeks full pay then 18 weeks half pay plus statutory pay then the final 3 months is unpaid. I'm only taking the paid 9 months off.

I work for the civil service and mat pay is 6 weeks full additional 12 weeks at half and the rest is statutory. Not great!!

a bank. 3 months full pay, 6 months SMP, 3 months no pay

You'll find that high-skilled industries that employ a lot of men often have good maternity pay packages.

The cynic in me says this is because they have a workforce of about 3% women, who are unlikely to be as highly paid on average as the men, so it's pretty cheap for them.

I worked in policing and got 6 weeks 90% (standard smp) followed by 12 weeks at 50% plus smp, followed by 12 weeks smp and then nothing which I thought was pretty good. Current company still hasn't written its policy and with 8 weeks before I go on mat leave I still don't know what I'll get. I'm pretty certain they're breaking employment law, but there you are.

I work for in adult education, private company in a skilled role.

ZERO ENHANCED

It has taught me so much about budgeting etc getting used to SMP though, is it a bit weird that I'm kinda glad?! I'm so much better with money now, and actually feel better about it than I ever have before.

Sounds nice I get 6 weeks at 90% of pay for 6 weeks then 50% pay an lower smp for 12 weeks then the rest at smp that's why I'm only taking 4 months

6 weeks full, 6 weeks 90%, then there was a period of 50% tapering off to SMP, can't quite remember what it was.

Professional services PLC.

American companies seem to have good packages which is odd as they don't in America.

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