NHS maternity pay

[Mazzatron]

Hi everyone this is pretty lazy of me but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me roughly what my mat pay will be each month.
Getting in a pickle trying to work it out.

I'm top of band 6 £37,890 but work only 22.5 hours a week.

Will be taking a full year off and spreading the money across each month rather than the traditional drop after so many weeks.

Has anyone else done this?

Thank you 😊

Your maternity pay is based on your salary

NHS maternity pay
Under the NHS scheme, you're entitled to 8 weeks of full pay eg what you get now
18 weeks of half pay (less SMP/MA), Half your salary
13 weeks of SMP or MA,
13 weeks of unpaid maternity leave if you wish to take the full 52 weeks of maternity leave.

Oh I see your doing equal monthly payments
So
8 weeks of full pay +18 weeks of half pay + 13 weeks of SMP divide by 52

If you email HR they will give you the exact figure

You must know your monthly salary? Work it out or yes just email HR

Hi OP.
I'm waiting to find out exactly the same. I'm band 6 too, but not top and full time, also splitting over 52 weeks.

I've struggled to work it out as I'm not sure about tax, NI and pension contributions, but I'm wondering if I might get £1300.
I've done a few sums, but may be wrong.

Have you submitted your maternity application form yet?
I've been told I should receive a statement of what I'll get within 15 days of acknowledgment (nothing as yet though).

HR will send you a breakdown with what you'll get each month gross.

I've averaged mine out and one thing I hadn't realised was that my pension contributions were taken as if on the standard way of having if paid (8 full, followed by 18 weeks half etc etc). So I had to pay a lot more pension the first couple of months which meant the take home pay was lower than I anticipated. I hope that makes sense.

Can't remember what it's called but there is a website where you can enter your salary details and the rules and it works it out for you.

Even if you split over 12 months, SMP is paid as it is due, that can't be split over 12 months.

For example, I'm the bottom of an 8a (£45,753 currently) and in my first couple of months I got something like £1k, but now my SMP has kicked in I'm getting more like £1450. I do pay student loan and pension though. My last three months will drop down to more like £1k again as the SMP stops at month 9.

Ah this is the website

maternity.money/maternity-pay-calculator

@keeponrunning85 is right though, the way the NHS do pension is weird and annoying. As is the fact payroll will only ever give you a gross calculation. The above will give you a reasonable idea though.

Having done 2 mat pays in the NHS, the first being equal payments and the second just as the amounts were due.
I actually found it more beneficial to take the non equal payments. I had more in the first few months so saved that to cover the shortfall with some kit days so actually had some wages every month for the 12 months.
Your HR/payroll should be able to print you off your 2 options month by month to see side by side as it will depend on your earnings in particular weeks.