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!

Majority of third sector IME at that pay scale would be 35-37hrs per week.

They have worked this out on a 45 hour week. You need to ask them if that's correct.

Sorry 40 hour week.

Are you working shorter days than other people? It sound a bit suspect to me, you are working 4 seven hour days, the others would have to be working 8 hour days to make it fair.

Waiting until 9 to call. No sleep :(
Will let you all know thanks for all your help :)

Bear in mind that for every £100 drop in gross pay, you will only be £68 worse off, because of tax and NI (assuming you're in the UK). It may not be as grim as you think.

Just read the thread, and hoping that when you call them it turns out to have been a mistake. If not, then that you're able to keep your existing job and keep looking for another one as it sounds like you're not happy where you are.

Good luck!

Please come back and let us know what happens OP. It does sound like they have made a mistake - if you are working 4 full days you should be getting 4/5 of the FT salary.

If they've offered £17,500 based on a 0.7 contract you just say it needs to be a 0.8 contract.

17500 is 0.625

It seems unfair to me.

Have you called them yet OP? If not, then tell them that they're only paying you for 3.5 days when you had agreed 4!

No answer! Honestly the stress.

Better get a loss at slimming world after this

Thanks all, this thread alone shows how many different answers there could be!

The answers are

1. Everyone else is working a longer day than you and full time staff work 40 hours

Or

2. They have made a genuine mistake in calculating the pay

Or

3. They are trying to screw you over.

The numbers don't lie.

28 hours is 62.5% of a 40 hour week. 4 days a week the same length as everyone else is 80% of a working week.

I hope that makes it clearer for when you talk to them.

Thank you.
I have called them, there is one HR person who don't work Wednesdays.
Brilliant. I don't think I could make it up!

Oh no! Can they pick up an email at home?!

Something isn't right if they want to employ me on 4days a week with a fifth day off on 28 hours but then a week would be 40hours to get that figure

Not necessarily. We replace jobs on a like for like basis in terms of hours. If the previous person had been working an hour less than everyone else on the 4 days they were working then that's the offer that would be given to the new applicant. In practice there's a bit of flexibility in terms of how they want to work those hours, but the number of hours that is worked would remain the same because that's what's in the budget.

You can only assume that 28 hrs over 4 days = 0.8 if you know what length the standard working day they use is.

Yes I understand Rafals
It's a new role with new funding though so no one has done it before

Hope you manage to sort it one way or the other soon. I hate when job adverts don't specify the ft hours

The numbers don't lie.

28 hours is 62.5% of a 40 hour week. 4 days a week the same length as everyone else is 80% of a working week.

I hope that makes it clearer for when you talk to them.

Clear as mud. If your numbers are different to everyone else's, check your numbers. 28 hours is 70% of a 40 hour week.

Good luck OP. I work in recruitment and in our experience the salary and hours on offer can often be negotiated. Tell them how much you need and mistake or not, you'll probably be fine.

Not really when it comes to charities...The pot is not that flexible.

You are right, I think I got the 25 thousand and the 28 hours the wrong way round.

How did the talk go?

Any update op?

£18,665

IT'S NOT TAKE HOME.

Take home is after tax.

If you are working 4 days out of a 5 day week, you should get 4/5 of the full time salary.

No other possible way to look at it.

The £17,500 is an error.

It should be £20,000.