Changing to part time ?

[Krissy09]

Hi guys I was wondering what your experiences were changing from full time to part time eg 3 days a week after May leave and whether this was a massive difference in pay ?. I am currently a full time teacher on m3 pay scale. I ain’t trying to roughly work out what I could be getting a months time but I am unsure how to do it

Hi @Krissy09 - there is a difference. I’m not exactly sure about teachers because of the holidays. But this is a rough way of working out where you have say 25 days holiday a year and work 5 days a week plus have 8 paid bank holiday.
You could expect to have 15 days holiday pa and reduce your gross annual pay by 2/5ths.
If you are in a fixed pattern with your 3 day week then you may lose pay on BH, but if you’re flexible and shift your days around you may still receive pay for your BHs.

in not HR tho and I’m sure someone can advise better. If you do the calculation on your gross this may take you into a different tax bracket and qualify you for child benefits too.

good luck x

The question really is whether they would allow you to go back part time. They don’t have to.

You have to put in a request, it isn't a guarantee you'll be allowed PT (I'm a teacher too who's hoping to do the same, but I do know of staff in my workplace who have had requests denied as what they wanted didn't fit into the timetable).

And yes it will make a big difference to your salary! Holidays don't count towards our salary, it's purely based on the number of hours you work out of the 1265 we're contracted to do within the school year. A teacher working 3 days would be classed as doing 0.6 of those hours. I can't work out your monthly take home pay without knowing if you still repay student loan or if you contribute to the pension, but your salary would be 60% of what it is now - obviously pension and loan contributions would reduce with that drop as well.

When I dropped my hours after having DD I just popped my current details into this site - https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/prorata.php and adjusted contracted hours to see what impact it would have. For us I was losing about equivalent to what it would cost in nursery fees to send DD in for an extra day, but gaining extra time with her so it was a no brainer really.

Second the take home pay calculator site. I dropped from 5 days to 4 days at 80% hours but my take home pay only dropped 10% because of how deductions changed, with one less day in nursery and one less day commuting it was approximately cost neutral whilst my daughter was in nursery

I’m not a teacher in school/college but I went down from full time to 80% (from 5 days to 4 days) and after two months figured out I was worse off in pay for the same workload as before. I had Fridays off but I ended up having to make up by working evenings etc at home anyway. Also I was worse off with the AL entitlement due to choosing Fridays and the BHs falling in a Monday etc so I lost some leave to balance it out. So I ended up going back to full time but luckily my work allow condensed hours. So I’m delivering the same work but getting paid for it now. Also I can keep Fridays off to be with DS. I still have to work odd weekends wfh to keep up with deadlines but I would have had this anyway on 80% fte and been annoyed.

It depends how many days you do. I do two days now and it was a big drop annually because I dropped my TLR as well but I don’t get taxed as much etc.

Oh okay , my head teacher asked if it was something I wanted to do before I went on leave so I think it should be okay

Thank you I will try this

Go on a gross to net calculator online ... you'll need to know your pension contribution %

Thank you I will have a try