To ask, if you work in payroll/accounts, to explain this to me!

[FiddlesticksAndCustard]

Started a new job who, rather than paying month to month, pay from 28th to the 5th of the month after so for example, December's pay is from 28th October to the 5th December.

I've just had my first full and proper payslip and I have hundreds more than I'm used to for the same wage as my previous job.

How does this work, will I not owe them quite a large sum if I ever did leave?

I'm not complaining just curious as to how this can work! I'm probably being stupid but as soon as I start to talk about numbers my mind goes blank

Are you sure it's not just like that for your first payslip, and then you get paid on the 5th of each month going forward?

Did you start on 28th Oct?
It makes sense that you missed the 5th Nov payday, so you essentially got paid for Nov and some of Oct too

It sounds like they pay you for the exact tax month so it would usually be for example 6th November to 5 December but they have added on 28 Oct to 5 Nov as you missed the November payroll. I imagine your next pay will be 6 Dec to 5 Jan which will be the usual amount you expect.

I don't work in payroll. I'm guessing you started 28th October and they didn't for whatever reason want to pay you on 5th of November, so your first pay was 5th of December, so you've been paid for a month and a week. Next time your pay will be on 5th of January and will be lower as their won't be an extra week included.

It can't pay from the 28th-5th every month.

What dates will next month's pay cover? From the 6th December to when?

You probably just missed the payroll run for November so go from your start date to the normal pay date, which is the 5th.

Check that your year to date figures have been updated on your payslip, you may not have paid enough tax.

No, I started on the 26th November so was owed two days (pay day on 28th and I missed cut off) but that does not come close to the amount extra I've received in comparison to old job which was same salary.

Everyone gets paid on the 28th of the month and the accounts team said it goes to 5th of the following month.

I'm really very confused.

It must just be a case of calculated from 5-6th but they pay early on 28th of the previous month for some reason...?

We are only getting paid before 28th this month due to Christmas closures otherwise payday would have been 28th Dec.

Could it be an emergency tax code (do they still do that?). Might be that more tax will be taken next month so might be worthwhile not splashing out just yet

Did they print an hourly rate on it? What tax did you pay?
Really hard to know without seeing it, the payslips in my company are quite self explanatory

My payslip is at work unfortunately but I'll check it again tomorrow.

I did look at my tax and it does seem the normal amount (few hundred pounds at least and a pension contribution like normal).

My brain can't cope.

You won’t know until you look at your payslip. Should all come clear!

Maybe they pay per tax month rather than calendar month

They cannot do that every month or will be paying double. If you got paid from 28th Nov to 5th Jan, next pay will be from 6th Jan surely??
It is likely you have been paid 26th to 30th Nov week and then for all of Dec so you will have an extra week of pay.

5th of the month is the date that the 'official' HMRC payroll month runs to so month 1 in a tax year is 6th April - 5th May, month 2 is 6th May - 5th June etc. thats only for taxation purposes. Most payroll that I know of is done on a calendar month, or 4 weekly.