To ask you how you would work out my first month pay?

[DoloresKeane]

I am on £20k pa pro rata. I work 2 days per week. I started last month and I worked 8 out of the 9 available days.
I don't agree with the method used to compute my first month's pay.
How would you work this out?

OP - As different calendar months will have different amounts pf working days in them, you need to work out how many days you will work in a year and calculate a daily rate from that.

For example if you will work 120 days a year, then your daily rate will be -
£8,000 / 125 = £64

If your daily rate is calculated per month then missing a day one month could mean you lose less pay than in a different month.

Given my example of a daily rate of £64, this month you would receive £512.

Each month thereafter 1/12 of £8000
Unless you always work 1/12 of your annual working days each month then this is not the right way to calculate your monthly salary.

Annual Salary = £8,000 for working 2 days over 52 weeks = 104 days

12 calendar months in a year. divide 52 by 12 months = 4.33 weeks

Monthly salary ÷ 12 = £666.67
Daily salary = £8000 ÷ 104 (days worked) =£76.92.

Average no of days worked per calendar month = 104÷12=8.67

In every 13 weeks you will be working 2 months of 9 days and 1 month of 8 days = 26 days

If you were paid on the working days per month you would be paid £615.36 for 8 days and £692.28 for 9 days

I would be paying you the 8 day rate of £615.36.

Will this help you explain that by dividing your salary by 12 but your daily rate by a 52 week causes an underpayment?

260 is the standard way,

Only for archaic organisations that can't get away from a time before spreadsheets and calculators existed.

260 is a terrible method of pro-ration from the dark ages.

@wasonthelist - what method do you use then?

260 has always been standard, IME, for getting from an annual salary to a daily rate.

In the case of OP:

20,000 /260 = £76.92 x 8 days = 615.36

@wasonthelist - what method do you use then?

260 has always been standard, IME, for getting from an annual salary to a daily rate.

In the case of OP:

20,000 /260 = £76.92 x 8 days = 615.36