How come she has got a higher monthly 'furlough' income than me when i earned more?

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Hello,
We both started our jobs at similar time, She started about 3 weeks after me.
We were both discussing our furlough payments and she is getting about £150 a month more than me even though i earned a £1000 more than her on our P60s for last tax year.
Any ideas? I'm broke so need as much money as i can

Also we'd both been in the job 7 months begore furlough happened

Do you pay more into a pension? Could be that you have more deductions than she does?

Call your payroll or HR department and ask, although they wont discuss other peoples pay they will be able to tell you how yours is worked out.

Your tax, ni and pension contributions will be more? Could make a difference. Is any of your wage commission?

Does the £1000 correspond to the three weeks you worked before she started?

She has paid more NI and pension than me

No idea, it's agency work so pay is up and down

If you haven’t been in the job for 12 months then the figure on your P60 is irrelevant.

Was any of your income made up of discretionary/non contractual bobuses? Is she talking pre or post deductions? She could have a different tax code or opted out of pension.

She's paid about £200 more NI than me, how is this when my gross income for that year was a £1000 more than her

She's also paid £111 more pension than me

Do you both have the same tax code? It's usually 1250L.

Why are you asking where no one can tell you rather than going to your employer to ask for an explanation of how it's been worked out?

This is a completely new thing that people have had to get to grips with in very little time, maybe they simply made a mistake or maybe you don't know all your co-workers financial details.

Speak to your employer and find out.

No bonuses in our pay xx

Student loan repayments?

No student loans taken out

NIC isn't calculated on an annual basis, it's calculated independently on each pay period.

No one here knows the answer, ask your employer!

7months you've been there? Were either of you working before this job?

I think you're basing this on the p60 figure when I can't see that's it's relevant.

Have you compared monthly payslips?

What was the gross pay figure used to calculate all these deductions?! Tell us the useful bit.

Does she take a deductible that she’s no longer eligible for? (Like pre tax train tickets or healthcare?)

So even though i earned a £1000 more, she couldve been making more weekly (that's when we're paid) so has paid more NI and pension?

Your furlough will not have been worked out on your gross income for the year. If you started work 3 weeks before her of course your figure will be higher for last tax year.

Your furlough will have been worked out by taking what you earn for the 7 months you have been there and dividing it by the exact number of days you have been there before you were furloughed.

There is also pensionable and non pensionable pay. So for example where I work normal time is pensionable but overtime is not so someone who worked 40 hours normal time could pay more pension than someone who worked 30 hours normal time then worked a weekend. (As long as the pensionable pay figure across the whole payroll is at least 80%.

You’ve just said it’s agency work so the pay is up and down. She might just have dropped lucky when her average was worked out due to the number of hours she worked over that period whereas yours would have been averaged over a 3 week longer period.

Have you seen her payslip? Most people lie about what they earn IMO.

Do you earn over £2500? At the moment I'm supporting myself, my DP and teen on £900 a month with no mortgage break (mortgage 650).