Child benefit higher rate tax

[Cherms]

I'm a bit confused about the advice on gov.uk so thought I would ask here.

My example:

If my salary was £55k but I put £5k into my employer's pension scheme through payroll would I still need to pay back half of the child benefit?

My new employer has a compulsory high level of pension contribution which pulls my actual salary below £50k but I don't know what that means for the child benefit. I've always earned less before.

Yes, you'll be under the threshold as your pension contributions are taken into account. It's called "adjusted net income", some information about it here

Thank you for that like as it's this step I hadn't seen before. I had only googled pension contributions and child benefit and it didn't explain this nuance.

Step 3 - take off pension contributions
If you made a contribution to a pension scheme where your pension provider has already given you tax relief at basic rate, take off the ‘grossed-up’ amount - what you paid plus the basic rate of tax.

So, for every £1 of pension contribution you made, take £1.25 from your ‘net income’.

It is usually the p60 taxable income figure.