£1925 per year

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If you are covered by the njc pay award (local authority, school support staff etc) you will get £1925 per year pay rise, backdated to April 2022. It's flat rate for everyone (although obviously pro rata for part time). I'm in a school and we will get ours in November pay. It's going to be a massive help.

Yes I got mine on the 15th I got £1,100 more this month.

I’ve managed to wipe my credit card with it so I’m really pleased.

It feels a bit of a disingenuous way to describe a pay rise when almost no one (especially on the lower grades) will actually get £1925, because so many of those roles are both part time hours and term time only.
For many, what would actually make much more of a difference would be to be contracted and paid for the hours that are actually needed to get the job done well, but school budgets don’t make that an option.

Rocky but it's not just school staff who get paid on these scales. It's all local government employees, which includes support staff in schools.
Yes, may school support roles are underpaid, but those on the lowest grades are getting 10%

Fair enough, sorry. My union is education based, so the discussions I’d seen were framed around school support staff. Across local authorities there will be more full time, year-round roles, so I’m glad someone somewhere will be getting £1925.

Are you sure your authority are paying it? Mine aren't 😞 (Bucks).

Yes we had an announcement in the weekly staff newsletter.

That's good then Hippy. Hopefully you'll get it soon.

I've had mine. Straight into savings for energy bills 🙄

My payslip has arrived.
The back pay is included, and will go in at the end of the month.

Mines not coming until next pay check. Thankfully that'll be in time for Christmas.

Hi I’m wondering if someone can help me, I’m desperately trying to work out how much I’ll get (sorry to be a pain, we’re all feeling the pinch at the moment). My employer has confirmed we’re getting the 1925 increase and it’ll be paid in December with back pay. I work in a school so I work 32.5 hours 39 weeks a year. Can anyone help me? Thank you

Your £1925 should be reduced to £1631.76 because you work 39 weeks of the year (although it's actually 44.2 because of holiday pay). It will be further reduced to £1392 because you work 32 hours per week.

I think that you'll get 9 months' worth of pay, so £1044 before tax, NI, pension, student loans, etc. Don't forget that if you are on Universal Credit, they will take 55p for every pound you receive in your pay packet.

Sorry, just seen that it's 32.5 hours. So your pay will be £1414, and you'll get £1060 in your wage this month. I think...

@Lougle thank you for that, I hope you’re right 🤞🏻

I get very similar numbers to Lougle.
Don't forget there will be tax, pension and NI to pay, so the extra take home is signifently less than a grand.
Also, what caused some confusion at our place was the back pay was one month less than people were calculating - you you will get the 1060 (ish) but it will be 942 of back pay to the end of November and December is taken care of via a higher monthly standard salary.

If your wage is +£1060, you'll have about £200 extra tax, £120 NI, £60 pension (presuming you're on 5.5% contribution). That will take it down to £680. Then, if you're on UC, they'll take £374, which leaves you £306 actual cash extra in your account.

Thank you for the info, I’ll just wait and see. I’m on on UC

I mean I’m not on UC

Last week we moved to a New MAT and no one has mentioned the support staff pay rise. After logging on line with the new MAT I noticed it says... Support staff pay rise will be back dated to 1/9/22 and will be in the January pay packet. The question is... will we get the pay rise back dated as we were not with the new MAT in September 2022? And why is it not back dated to April? No one seems to want to answer our questions.

That's a lot of money to lose @CornishG. 5 months worth of backdate. I still can't believe we got it backdated to April. It meant in the cold snap I could stick the gas fire on without panicking.

I’m a MAT leader. Have you TUPE’d across to the new MAT? If so your previous employment rights move with you. So the new MAT should be paying you the back pay ti April.

If not and your previous MAT is still operating, your claim is with them and they owe you the April to September money.

What Id advise is that you contact your HR department and your union rep. You are owed the money by someone.

Finally heard today that my council have agreed to pay me the backdated pay award for the 6 months I was there. Only took getting the councillors involved and mentioning legal action but at least it will now be paid 😄

@MyCatsSlave good news. My old school are still dragging their feet. Everyone else got theirs in Decembers pay but mine didn’t get paid. It looks like I’m going to have to be a bit firmer as well

Thanks for your reply.
I've found some paperwork and copied a couple of extracts:
All staff being transferred from ? ? Co-operative Trust will be protected by TUPE regulations.
Other measures to be taken are that ( the new MAT) Policies will apply to all staff post transfer. The pay awards for both teachers and support staff are agreed by Trustees annually and take effect from 1 September not 1 April (with the exception of any national living wage increase).

So this must mean we will not get any money back dated to April!!

Well done. As you deserve.