School salary

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Hello,

I've recently secured a job in a school as support staff.

My working week is 39.5 hours a week term time.
My contract states:

"The rate of pay for your role will be £23,114 gross per annum which is based on a full-time employee. Your pay will be reduced on a pro-rated basis if you do not work on a full-time basis. Your actual pay based on TT only will be £19,455."

How much is this monthly? Maths isn't my strongest hand!

Thank you xx

Divide it by 12...

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Approx £1621 before stoppages assuming as is the norm now you're paid in 12 instalments even though it's term time only. If you want to know what the take home will be then a salary calcualtor of which there are several on line is the way to go.

£19445/12 = £1620 gross

That won't give the net amount though will it, which I assume is what OP wants to know.

£1,621.45 a month.

They've already done the tricky bit and pro-rata'd it down for you 👍🏼

Well tax/ NI is not going to be much on such a low salary, but OP can just use a salary calculator.

https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php

Thank you very very much I had calculated £1,621 - I actually just wanted to triple check my calculations were correct as I've already started the role but my pay this month is £1,000 (I'm not on any payslip accoints yet) and before phoning HR to enquire I wanted to make sure my maths wasn't out and i was making a fool of myself thank you 😄

Did you worked less than a month before payday? Presumably that would be why the salary is lower? Next month should be the full amount.

The first month pay is usually a bit off. It depends how you are paid. My school pay 2 weeks in advance and 2 weeks in arrears so it depends when you start within the payment period as to how much of the arrears payment you get.

You do need to get set up so that you can access your pay slip though and check your tax code is correct for example.

Thank you I started at the beginning of the new term back in April and received a small amount of pay in April so presumed I'd receive the full amount this month. I really need a payslip to look at!

Your first month does sound low unless you know you only worked half of it. Check your tax code on your payslip. If it says something like BR it's probably wrong and you'll need to call HMRC to get it corrected (that tax code doesn't give you a personal allowance). It should be something like 1257L unless you have particular circumstances such as owing HMRC money, reclaiming union subs, transfer of personal allowance to spouse for example. Tax codes ending in L mean you get a personal allowance and if you add a 0 it tells you what your allowance is.

You may be on emergency tax, which assumes you don't have a personal allowance, so taxes you on the lot. Ask as soon as term starts back. If that is the case, you will be able to claim it back.

Probably emergency tax OP.

Could it be because you started part way through the school year?

They need to account for the fact that between April and September there's the summer holiday, which will take up disproportionally more holiday time than the average across the whole year, so between now and the end of August, you'll earn a bit less than your full salary, but from September it will be the full amount.

Yes I would think it is this.

2 weeks holiday in April
1 week in May
6 weeks July and August

so in the 5 months of the academic year that is left, you are only working maybe 12 or 13 of them.

Your pay will be different for April-August. Schools work it on the academic year, not a rolling year. You most likely may get 1k a month until September and then it will go up to what you expect. This is standard in all education places I have worked TTO.

You absolutely need a payslip to look at. Legally your employer must give you a proper payslip from your first payday. So they’re two behind which is unacceptable.

I haven’t done the calculations, but I suspect you’re on emergency tax, as that amount looks too low. Push your employer for the payslip, and then ring HMRC (can take ages to get through on the phone but the staff are normally nice and helpful once you get to them!).

Edit to add: actually yes the points about pay across an academic year May have it. But again you need your payslip to see the detail.

What tax code are you on? It should say on your payslip.

Emergency tax is non cumulative so you get one twelfth of the personal allowance each month. If you start in April that shouldn't be a problem but it would be if you started in October and had unused allowance.

If there's no personal allowance, for example if it's used against another job or, as in my case, occupational pension, then your code would normally be BR,.

You need to access your payslips, Long time since I had a paper one, they're either emailed or accessed on line.

OP needs to find out how they're accessed- might be somethin in your welcome pack