final salary

[eggcup1]

Afternoon,

I am currently working on a fix term contact that I started on 3rd April 2017 and which ends on the 27th April 2018.
I have an ongoing dispute with my current pay roll department on how they have calculate my pro rata my first final salary payment.

I do not work weekends, my salary is £36000.00 per a year:
They are calculating it on the following basis:
36000/12= 3000
3000/30=100 ( 30 days in April)
100*27= 2700 (27 number of days I will be employed by them in April)

Meaning this month I will earn 300 less just because I am not working one - I understand that the above calculation is mathematically correct my concern is about fairness.

The pay roll manager just states this is the way they calculate it and seems to be unwilling to just use working days? I understand I should not be paid for the whole of April but i am unsure how far to push this issue?

Also, I have not put this to them yet but if they are going to dilute my salary by including weekends surely my hours for this month should be worked out on the above formula meaning they are now ending my contact on 26th April and not the 27th.

Any help or advice on this matter would be very appreciate

It’s more normal to use just working days. If you do that, then your day rate is £36000/260=£138.46.

Then multiply that by the number of days you’ll be working in April which I make to be 20. That gives you pay of £2769.20. Very slightly more than they make it but not much.

What is the dispute exactly? Do they normally use working days and they’re not this time? I’m not sure it’s worth an extended argument over £70.

I've worked in payroll for many years and that is how I've always calculated first month and last months pay - staff are pause based on 365 days per year not on working days per year so if you leave on 28 April I would calculate your pay as 28/30th of 1/12 of your annual salary.

So based on what you have said maybe they are a day out? If contract ends on 28th April you should be paid 28/30 not 27/30.

That’s how it was always calculated where I used to work.