NHS June payslip

[3littlebird5]

Hello everyone, Could anyone that has already had their payslip for June tell me if the amount of tax on our pay with the lump sum this month is as bad as social media is saying? I was looking forward to payday this month, now I’m a little worried.

I don't even understand my payslip this month. I'm on mat leave and this is my last month of OMP being paid (I spread the payments) and for some reason my OMP is almost double alongside the bonus payments so I'm half expecting contact to request money back.

It doesn't get pension taken off it so it's just tax and NI. It is pretty hefty deduction but overall deductions for me this month (including student loan who also took a handful of the bonus) was around 30% and usually it's about 33-34%

I'm a band 3 and with deductions I ended up with about 1k extra.

I had £1800 deductions this month 😵

It seemed a lot taken off. I am 30 hours on a band 4. Gross was 3420 take home 2663. Ended up with 1135 extra which included the back pay since April. Very grateful for anything at the moment tho!

Thank you for your reply Monstermoomin, I hope you don’t have to pay anything back.
I never understand my payslips.
I certainly wouldn’t want to work in payroll this month!
I think the twitter posts I’ve read about this months pay are a little over dramatic. Fingers crossed.
Thank you again
:-)

Thank you all for your relies,
I to will be very grateful of anything extra this month.

Overall deductions for me this month were about 33% including tax / pension / student loan etc.

It's always a bit depressing when they show you the amounts of the bonus "here's what you could have won" and you know it's not really what you take home but that's the system!

Yes!! I was looking at mine in disbelief on Wednesday. Not on social media so not sure what is being said but I’m top band 5 at 22.5 hours, 8-4 so no enhancements. Usually paye is £92.00, Ni £72.00 pension £100 total £1380. This month paye £379, NI £250 pension total £2340 (ish, can’t remember exact number)

Sorry pension £105

It's always a bit depressing when they show you the amounts of the bonus "here's what you could have won" and you know it's not really what you take home but that's the system!

That's the same for any job, not just the NHS.

My bonus has just taken me into the higher tax bracket. I don't earn enough for the extra to be worth much after tax (bonus is a percentage of salary, not a fixed amount).

I'd be better off if my annual salary was a bit lower so I could keep more of my bonus - but in the words of the great Boris "them's the breaks"

The “bonus” isn’t pensionable so tax will come off all of it. I’m expecting to lose most of mine, which is a shame because I’ve already spent it 🤣. I haven’t looked at my payslip yet because I don’t want to spend the weekend feeling disappointed ☹️

Sadly I'm not getting the lump sum. I work for a social enterprise within the NHS and there's no funding for us to receive it. We did get the pay rise.
Lovely two tier system 🙄

@3littlebird5 I never understand my payslips.

A statement like this always shocks me. Everyone should understand their payslip. How do you know you are being underpaid or overpaid?

I don’t work for the NHS but it took me 3 clicks to find this https://my.esr.nhs.uk/dashboard/documents/22528/656514626/Understanding+your+payslip.pdf/3b873efb-2f57-ffb8-af54-25d4af3b7e16?t=1663085464155

For most people your salary is your only source of income, not taking the time to check your payslip seems mad to me.

Had just short of £2.5k deducted, thanks Rishi enjoy.

We work for the NHS we know we're being underpaid!!

No you wouldn’t, you’re never better off by being paid less (ignoring benefit entitlements).

@JuicyPie so surely every penny counts and you would want to know if you have been underpaid? You can only do that if you check and understand your payslip.

@SilverOrchid that isn’t true, whilst long term pay rises do increase income there are points in the system where a pay rise can see you take home less.

For example pension thresholds if at £50k you go from 5% pension contributions to 8% contributions you can end up taking home less because it’s 8% of all pensionable pay.

@Tippingadvice
Because you've never had to have a conversation with payroll. If you think you're under or overpaid and have a conversation with them you get different answers each time you speak to a member of staff and trying to get answers about mat pay is even worse.

Hey
I received the back dated pay rise in my wage slip but I can’t see the non consolidated lump sum payment, does this mean I won’t get it ?

I'm band 6 and took home about £1300 extra in my pay this month.
I was surprised they took so much student loan - for some reason I wasn't expecting that amount to increase!

I also have about 1300 extra this month, I'm a band 7 but part time.

@Monstermoomin having done 30 years of HR and Pay Policy (not in NHS) including translating HR policies into payroll configuration I do know that payroll is highly specialised and under appreciated.

You quite often find you are talking to HR people not payroll. Most HR people, like most employees, don’t understand or want to understand payroll.

I am talking about complex issues just a basic understanding of your payslip .

Sorry that should say I’m not talking about complex issues