Pro Rata Salary question

[pinkstinks]

If you saw a job advertised at £25000 pro rata 28 hours per week, when you received your offer letter and it told you your annual take home salary, what would you expect this to be?

Thanks in advance!

I think it goes:

Old Job - full time £30k, 29 hours £24k, take home £19.5
New Job - full time £25k, 28 hours £17.5-20k, take home £15-16.5k

My job is 40hpw and tbh Id assumed most places were.

What hours are you going to be doing each day that you work? Are your days the same length as a full timer?

Even based on a 37hpw job itd still be 21k.

Wankers It's old job
Full time = 24k
I work 29 hours get £19k per annum take home not sure, less obvz

And new job as above

Don't panic yet OP, this sounds like a cock-up to me. If it's 4 days a week then the FT hours are 35 and the salary should be about 20 as you thought. Plus - remember that salaries are negotiable and they want you to work for them. If you want/expect 20k, tell them that.

I'd generally assume

Private sector - 40 hours
Public sector England & Wales - 37 hours
Public sector Scotland - 35 hours

Not sure what I'd assume for third sector

ok, pink - it sounded earlier as if your pay was 24k gross and £19.2 net.

what roughly do you come out with per month?

I think people are unsure of your current salary because you're saying 19k take home, do you actually mean take home or gross? 19k is what you'd get after tax/NI etc. it if was take home. If that's your pro-rata salary then it's 19k gross

Four full days a week is 80% and so £20k.

You need to contact them to check the hours.
If they want you in 4 days and others do 5 then you ought to be working 4/5ths of the ft hours and receive 4/5ths of the salary (£20k).

£17,500 is what I got assuming a full time week is 40 hours

40hpw x 52 weeks = 2080 hours
£25,000 / 2080 hours = 12.02ph*
28 hours x £12.02 = £336.54
£336.54* x 52 = £17,500

(* done a bit of rounding when writing it down but if you use a calculator you get £17,500)

It's got to be their cock up, if you only get Fridays off. They have deducted 12 hours for your one day off. I think they work an 8 hour day and get an hour unpaid for lunch = 35 hour week.

If it's as simple as you are working 4 days from 5 and the days are the same length as everyone else's then you should be on 4/5ths of the advertised salary and that would be £20k not £17.5k.

You need to clarify - £20k would mean a monthly pay of around £1,400 depending on deductions for pension etc.

turbohamster, I work in the third sector our pay scales and full time hours (and bank holidays) are based on those of the public sector.

I would never have thought full time would be 40 hrs. I'm now assuming it's a large, more corporate charity!

It's a tiny charity
Currently take home £1,300
Assumed this new role £1,400 as wankers said

Miri it's a tiny charity I always work in charities and 35 or 37.5 is full time

Ok I am calmer. Thanks everyone.

It definitely sounds like it's worth clarifying OP.

Unless you are working fewer hours per day than full time staff it's either a cock up or a stitch up.
40 hours per week / 5 days per week = 8 hours per day
28 hours per week / 4 days per week = 7 hours per day
So they not 4 "full time" days if they claim full time is 40 hours per week.

So you are doing 4 days a week and working 28 hours.
That means 7 hours a day.
If you were to work 5 days a week then you would be doing 35 hours a week, surely?
Which means £20k

Also: Four full days a week is 80% and so £20k. as said above.

Regardless of the answer, they are BU for not having been clear in the first place. I hate job adverts where they put the pro rata salary, especially when they don't advertise the exact hours. Why don't they just put the actual salary?

There was a thread about a week ago about what a pain it is when jobs are advertised at pro rata. Damn near every poster had a go at the OP for being thick that she couldn't work it out.
This thread goes to prove she had a point. It's easy to work out if you are given all the information.

It's a tiny charity

Then they probably don't have an HR dept and may not be very clear on these kind of things. Definitely worth clarifying with them. Given the cost of recruiting, it's probably better of they do pay you a higher salary. At least ask how they calculate pro rata.

Why did you think it would be significantly more than your current salary though?

29 hours at 24,000 versus 28 hours at 25,000 work out much the same on a 37 hour week

If you understand the concept of pro rata, why can't you grasp that different companies have different working weeks? Not every job is 9 to 5, eight hours per day?

OP you've got me all worried for you. Please do come back and let us know the situation. Meanwhile good luck