Paid Maternity Leave - How much time do you get?

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I work for a Management Consultancy firm in London. The paid maternity leave depends upon your years in service. The highest level is 14 weeks paid 100% if you've completed 3+ years of service.

I was wondering if anyone else working in Finance, Banking, Professional Services, Management Consultancy, Technology etc would be willing to share how long their paid maternity leave is?

I'm trying to understand if my company's policy is competitive or not.

I work in "professional services" (albeit third sector). We get a big fat nada. Your company sounds very generous.

i work for a small firm of accountants, we only get SMP. In my experience you only get more if you work for public sector or some big companies so yours sounds very good.

Legal firm. First 6 weeks at full pay, then next 6 at half, reducing to statutory after that. Will check to be sure as I am long out of the mat leave frame but your firm does sound very generous. Don't forget that your benefits remain intact when on mat leave too.

I work in private sector publishing so not quite the same area but we get 6 weeks 90% and then the weeks up until 29 at SMP. We also get a lump sum of 7 weeks full pay when notifying them of our return and on return we also get 13 weeks half pay.

Work for a bank. We get 6 months full pay then 3 months statutory. It's a really generous package- just a shame I joined after having my two and have no intention of going for a third. We also get an extra 10 days paid leave in the year after coming back from mat leave to deal with transition/ childcare issues. In subsequent years we get 5 paid days a year for emergency carers leave.

Oh and there's no additional qualifying period (e.g. 3 years service) so you could technically join the bank, get pregnant the same/ next month and then go off on mat leave later that year.

Work in civil service. We definitely get a good deal when it comes to maternity leave - 6 months full pay, next 3 months SMP, and have the option of a further 3 months unpaid.

I work in housing: 6 weeks @ 90% of salary, 12 weeks @ half pay +SMP, the remaining weeks @ SMP. If you don't return for a minimum of 3 months you have to repay the half pay.

FMCG. If you have been there over 2 years you get 18 weeks full pay then revert to SMP upto 39 weeks. Can then take further 13 weeks unpaid, as per gov policy.