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Supply alongside permanent teaching job

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pinkyponkyplink · 21/06/2022 23:13

I really need to increase my salary. Is it possible to do supply alongside the days I work in a school? How does it work tax wise? Will I be taxed more?

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pinkyponkyplink · 21/06/2022 23:17

Any other suggestions for increasing my salary? Tutoring won't really work as I have little ones after school. If only tutoring in the day was a thing!

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echt · 22/06/2022 00:50

Supply work might push you into a higher tax bracket, though an accountant would give better advice than me.

I think you might have to declare your supply work to your employer. I only say this because in Victoria we have to do this, and there are lots of similarities between it and the UK. The declaration is about possible conflict of interest and will be in your contract.

Dendron123 · 22/06/2022 07:00

Hi. It might be possible to do some catch up tutoring in the day. Can't remember when the scheme is winding down. My agency were trying to talk me into that. A friend got more per hour through tutoring catch up than long term supply.

drspouse · 22/06/2022 15:15

Do you have SEN experience? You might be able to tutor 1:1 for children who have an EOTAS package.

pinkyponkyplink · 22/06/2022 15:44

I have been a classroom teacher for 20 years. Not specifically sen

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junebirthdaygirl · 24/06/2022 21:49

Maybe you could teach English to students online in a different time zone.

monkeysox · 25/06/2022 11:41

I've done supply and tutoring around a permanent part time job. You just get taxed on standard tax code so no allowance for second employment.
Could you do exam marking?

ToadiesCouzin · 25/06/2022 15:20

I have a colleague who has a part-time permanent job, and she does supply for us on the days she is not contracted to work for the school. There's no issues as far as I can tell. When I do other work outside of my part-time teaching job, I'm just taxed as normal, as I would be for my teaching job.

ToadiesCouzin · 25/06/2022 15:22

In terms of other work, have you looked into marking for the exam boards? You'd most likely need to wait until next summer to start though.

ThanksItHasPockets · 26/06/2022 09:34

Where I am at least schools are scrambling to spend their catch-up tutoring funding and woiod
bite your hand off if you could tutor KS3 Maths or English.

pinkyponkyplink · 26/06/2022 14:20

Thanks for these suggestions. Ideally I could do with something which allows me to drop and collect my children from school!

Hoping tutoring might offer a bit of flexibility for the beginning and end of the day if I stay quite local. Otherwise I will be paying £42 for childcare out of my supply money.

Does anyone know how much to cut off for tax and insurance if supply is around £140 or £160?

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cherrypiepie · 26/06/2022 20:52

For the tax question How many days to you do at the moment and what pay scale point are you on? Unlikely to be pushed in 40% tax if that's your concern.

You could offer supply i your own school.

Offer 121 tutoring in own school (I do this at £29/per hour on my day of usually in blocks of 6 weeks and can pick my hours)
Exam Marking: too late for this year but I also do this. I mark two papers in my subject and am team leader for one.
You could do daily supply with an agency.

You could to 121 tutoring but it's not for me so I don't do this.

pinkyponkyplink · 13/07/2022 10:29

Help! I've been in contact with supply agencies but they are giving the option of using PAYE or an umbrella company. Given that I am paid by a school and the supply would be an extra, I don't want to get in a mess with tax and get in trouble. How does it work?

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monkeysox · 17/07/2022 00:09

I just was paid PAYE by agency it will just be taxed in full as a second employment it's not a biggy

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