Maternity pay and working out earnings (please see picture).

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AIBU to think this is difficult to read? - probably, yes, I now have full on baby brain 🤣. I'm trying to work out my maternity pay,
I was paid on the 30th of December, and the 31st of January. Going by the below calculation, would I be including January's pay for the attached calculation dates, does it count as between?

Yes I would include two months of pay if I were completing that.

Yes, I would read that as you would include January’s pay as pay day falls within the timeframe they’ve stipulated. Had it read to Jan 30th rather than 31st, then I wouldn’t have included it.

Looks to me like they want to see everything that you earned in December and January.

YANBU it's a stupidly complex calculation - based on 8 weeks of pay and originating in a time when most people were paid weekly. This is way overdue for proper reform.

Yes - the whole point is that those dates cover every day of two full months. So whenever you were paid, you will have two months of pay in the calculation.

To do it properly you really need to split the pay into weeks and then consider those 8 weeks.

Yes they want the two months. Ridiculously complicated system.

Why? Most people get paid monthly not weekly.

It looks like a convoluted way of asking 'how much did this person earn in December and January'

For most people it would be one sixth of their annual salary but if they get shift allowances etc, you also need to account for those.

But to answer your question OP, it just wants your December and January salaries.

Yes it will then ask how many months pay that is