If you are on £38,000 a year, how much do you take home after Tax, NI and Pension deductions please - Local Authority worker.

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I'm just trying to decide whether to take a big step up in my career. I'm currently on £30K but this will be dropping to 28K soon as some extra responsibility will be finishing. I love my job as it's fairly stress free and a bit flexible in that I can always leave at 4pm. I take home £2K a month. I can work my way fairly swiftly up the ladder in a different career for which I have a professional qualification but it is a far more stressful role and I am rusty. Ds is now 14 so able to let himself in at home and be left alone for a bit.

I'm trying to find out whether the difference in pay will be worth it. I won't be able to go back to my old job if I leave it.

If you take about 1/3 off the gross, it should be roughly right for deductions of tax, NI and pension.

I find the salary calculator website really handy

Thank you. The salary calculator doesn't include pension deductions and I'm not sure what these would be ie; it might be at a higher rate than I'm on now. Using one third off gross it's coming out at a take home of £2,111 which wouldn't be worth all of the extra stress and less flexibility. I'm surprised that a salary of 8K more only equates to this amount of extra pay (or am I doing something wrong?).

I think you must be doing something wrong! I would have thought you'd have at least £300 extra each month. Is the calculator incorrectly adding on student loans?

If you go on listentotaxman.com/ you can work it out with your pension contributions.

I'm a teacher on nearly 39k once my tlr is added on. I bring home 2200. That does inc my teacher pension though.

£2300 after tax but I've had teachers pension deducted from my pre tax wage.

The online salary calculator does allow you to add in pension contributions in a percentage form.

It will also let you compare two salaries side by side. I would have thought you would get around £500 per month more.

DH is on £36k and brings home around £2050 after pension (£120) and ShareSave (£110). ShareSave is obviously totally optional.

Oooh curious what do you do? wanting to change career

You'd be looking at £2410 after tax but without any pension deductions

The salary calculator has a section for pensions in it too - you can just enter the percentage

Type in

Taxman

Into Google. The website is pretty good with working out tax

Thank you all - quite shocked st how little difference it would make. Thinking it might be better to stay where I am for the less stress and flexibility and just take on some weekend work which I can then leave or not if it gets too much.

Local authority here and pension deductions are 6.8% We have compulsory shut down between Christmas and new year of 4 days which is deducted from salary on a monthly basis.

Will your holiday entitlement be the same as week, as extra leave is worth a couple of grand

I earn exactly £37000. I take him 2100 after a pension contribution of 7% and a student loan repayment.

Think my pension contribution would be 6.8%. No student loan.

The pension would be a fairly good one though- that's worth including in your thinking...

Don't forget the employer contribution to a local government pension is pretty good.

Have a look at Listentotaxman online. You can add benefits, pension etc there and I've always found it accurate.

£2292 after a 6.7% pension contribution, tax & NI (according to the salary calculator website)

Thank you all and to Namechangedtoday. £300 extra might just be about worth it (wish it was £500 though!).