Pro rata - working out actual wage help

[moonbeam75]

Hello,
I am thinking of applying for a teaching assistant role in a primary school, the pay is stated as A1/B1 15,000 - 17,500 pro rata TTO [term time only] 36hrs p/wk. Can anyone please help with how you work out the actual pay for this? It would be working from February until July. I have looked into this but I'm still a little confused, I've never worked pro rata before and really would appreciate any help anyone could give. Thankyou for reading :]

Hi there, I work in HR for local government and support school staff. Depending on how many hours are considered full time for the role and what your exact holiday entitlement is it's difficult to say.

However in the case of my experience, support staff roles are considered to be 37 hrs per week max, and term time only equates to 43.32 weeks per year of pay when you include holiday entitlement. What you then do is a sum to work out your full time equivalent which you then multiply by the salary to work out what you will actually receive. This is as follows:

(36/37) x 43.32 / 52.143 = 0.8083 FTE
(Your hours divided by full time hours, multiplied by the weeks you work per year, divided by actual weeks per year)

Multiply the FTE by the salary (15,000 as you would very likely start at the bottom end of the scale) and your actual pay per annum before tax/NI & pension contributions would be £12,125.07 per year.

Hope this helps 😊

Also salary calculator is an easy way to find out.

Thankyou very much for all your calculations kath, and averagewife for the link 😊 Is all very confusing but hopefully the school itself can help too. It's one way of testing my mathematics that's for sure lol