To ask how much dinner ladies get paid?

[Jam82]

I started a new job as a dinner lady 2 weeks ago and am unsure how to calculate what my salary will be.
My salary is £16,395 pro rata, but obviously I work hardly any hours at 7.5 hours a week.
I think I will earn around £200-250 a month. My husband seems to think it’s going to be more like £300. Does anyone know how to work out prorata pay and whether I will be paid during the holidays? I realise I could just ask, but I don’t really know anyone there yet as it’s a massive school and as this is my first job in 10 years I’m still a bit anxious in the work environment (and I don’t want them thinking I’m having second thoughts as I’m not)

So £16,395 ÷ 52 (for each week of the year) then ÷ 37.5 (presuming 37.5 hours is 1.0 WTE) is £8.40 an hour. X by 7.5 is £63.05 for your weekly pay and X by 4 for your 4 weekly pay is £252.23 every 4 weeks.

So £3279 pa

According to the pro rata online calculator, if we assume full time would be 37.5 hrs a week, 7.5 hrs would be £273 per month and you wouldn't pay tax on that.

www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/prorata.php

Yer a wizzard hula

It's probably term time only though so £63.05 x 39/12 = £204.92 a month.

It depends on how they pay you - do they pay you only in the months you work or do they pay you spread across 12 months?

They also will add pro-rated holiday pay on.

How many weeks per year will you work?

You won't get paid for the holidays but there'll be some statutory holiday factored in making it a bit more than what I put. I'm TTO and get really confused!

I worked as a dinner lady and they spread your salary over the whole year so you get paid during the school holidays.

It's typical to get paid for about 43 weeks per year - you'll work 39 ( or 38 if you don't work on Inset days) plus your paid holiday allowance will take it to 43/44 weeks paid.

So you pro rata it twice; once to the number of weeks per year you're paid and then once to the number of hours per week you work.

Non salaried school staff's wages are a nightmare to work out...

Salary calculator is great but be sure to put the correct tax code in

And your actual annual salary will be spread into 12 equal monthly payments so you get paid in August etc

You should get 5.2 weeks paid holiday on top of 39 weeks term time only. So it would be as wreckedtangled says but £63.05 X 44.2/12. Which is £231 a month.

You will be paid equal amounts every month as your annual salary is divided in to 12 equal payments so you will still get paid in August even though you don't work in August etc.

16395 /52 =316 a week assuming 52 weeks a year full time.

But it's actually 39 weeks...plus about 3 weeks annual leave so let's say 42 weeks.

316/37= roughly £8.50 per hour.

X 7.5 hours. Roughly £64 a week.

X 42 (weeks) =£2684 ish a year

Paid over 12 months about £224 a month

I make it about £216 per month gross, but I could well be wrong!

Thanks ladies 😊