Maternity pay

[SeriyaDL]

I'm curious what typical maternity pay policies are. The company I work for pays statutory maternity pay only - 6 weeks at 90%, then down to £155 per week for 33 weeks. A colleague raised this with HR as being miserly. I agree it's not great but I don't know how that compares with other places. So I'm curious what everybody else's experience is.
[before anyone asks, I'm not pregnant and neither is the colleague.]

Statutory here too. I work in a GP surgery

I’m a teacher and get 3 months (well 13 weeks) at full pay then a further 6 months of SMP (£152 a week). So after 9 months if you want to take a full year you have to take the last 3 months unpaid. I was watching something today and a girl on it worked for the civil service and gets 6 months full pay then smp

Four months full pay, four months half pay then on to statutory for a few weeks until the 33rd week then final three months if you take them are unpaid.

Our policy is 8 weeks full pay and then onto SMP. Which is better than some, so I should feel lucky, but it still doesn’t seem great when you’re working out how to pay your bills (obviously this will all be worked out and covered in plenty of time before mat leave)

I have only ever worked in places that offer statutory.

13 weeks full pay, 13 weeks half pay, 13 weeks statutory and the final 13 unpaid if you want to take a full year

Nhs: 8 weeks full, 18 weeks half plus SMP, further SMP then last 3m unpaid.

we can average the above out though, which is what I’ve done this time and get about £2000 before tax for 11 months. I normally earn about 45k a year pre tax so down about 1500-1700 ish a month

Just statutory for me

3 months full pay, 6 months SMP and then 3months unpaid from my job in financial services.

6months full, 3 months statutory, 3 months nil. I work for a University.

@BCxx where do you teach???

I'm a teacher
2 weeks full pay
2 weeks 90%
12 weeks 50% plus SMP
Rest SMP to 9 months
Last 3 months if you want the year nothing

6 weeks 90% pay 12 weeks half pay+smp and 21 weeks smp 13 weeks unpaid if taking a year.

Statutory in both places I’ve worked.

6 weeks 90%, 20 weeks 30% OMP + SMP then 13 weeks SMP. Final 13 weeks unpaid totalling a year off.

20 weeks full pay, 20 weeks stat

I got the 6 months on half pay plus statutory. I reduced my sons nursery hours and I was basically better off for most of my leave as I saved about £800 on childcare.

Statutory-

been with the business 10 years. Don’t even get a card or small gift 😂

Large house builder: 3 months at 100% pay, 3 months at 50% pay then statutory for the remaining

Current job (civil service) is 6 months full pay, 3 months SMP, then 3 months unpaid as long as you've worked there for a year by due date.

Previous job (private sector) just statutory.

Huge factor in why I moved job.

Household name technology company, sales, SMP. I told our MD it's not good enough and he agrees, hoping things change if we have number 2.

6 months full pay then remaining statutory.

@Maraudingmarauders thats really good, I also work for a university and I don’t get as much as that.

Its 8 weeks full, 16weeks 1/2 plus stat, 15weeks stat, 13weeks unpaid.
OR 16 weeks full, 23weeks stat, 13weeks unpaid. I worked out the top option pays slightly more so I will go with that option.

4 months full. 2 month 90%. 6 months statuary. Had money until I went back after a year.

First baby was before we tauped over, so nowhere near that at all.

Very generous. Large private. Not having anymore babies though.

It depend on company, you will find it in your contract. In my current company after 2 years of service it's 13 weeks full pay, 13 weeks half pay or statutory whichever higher and 13 weeks statutory.

I’ve been really curious about other peoples Mat leave too, thanks for posting OP.
Mine is 8 weeks at full pay, 4 weeks at 90%, 6 at 50%, 21 at SMP, and 13 unpaid. I
work in the tech sector. For a sector that is trying to promote itself as female friendly, trying to encourage woman into tech, personally I think we should be doing better.

@Maraudingmarauders I used to work in a university that offered 6 months full pay, so am slightly disappointed by my current package, but seeing other posts it’s maybe not so bad after all.