Maternity Pay Two Jobs

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Hello,

Is there anyone who could please help me understand how tax, NI and pension contributions are worked out during maternity leave please?

I’m entitled to statutory maternity pay from both jobs - earning £22000 from one with a tax code 1257L and the other £7300 with a BR tax code.

I’ve worked out the SMP amounts on the gov website but cannot get my head around the tax contributions etc.

I just want to get a rough idea of how much I’ll be taking home so I can figure out how much leave I want to take.

Thank you!!

Bag of fag packet calculation, you can earn £1000 per month. Any more you will be taxed on.

You could ask your employer fir a salary projection spreadsheet for when you areikely to be off.

1. Basic pay minus off the pension contribution, if you know what this is? E.g. 6% or something like that? This gives you your pensionable pay.
2. Pensionable pay minus off £12570 (the amount you can earn before tax) x 20% gives you your tax deduction.
3. Pensionable pay minus off £12570 (the amount you can earn before paying NI) x 12% gives you NI deduction.
4. Basic pay minus pension (1.) minus tax (2.) minus NI (3.) = net pay.

You can then divide these by 52 for weekly or 12 for monthly amounts.

If paid monthly, bare in mind some pay 4 weeks SMP and some months pay 5 weeks so each month can fluctuate in amounts. If paid weekly, the amount will remain the same.

if you want to work out pay then calculators can do that for you

listen to the tax man

is fairly good

input your pay and pension - then ht the button

you'll need to do this twice and add together