Leaving work pay help

[Rebeccaginger]

Hi ladies I wondered if anyone could help me understand my pay. I have just received my final pay from the school I work in as I handed in my notice before the summer and put my last working day as 31st August and I was expecting my full pay as I’ve worked the full year and I’m paid pro rata or am I being silly here because the pay I’ve received is soooo low it’ll just cover a week if that when technically I haven’t even left yet and that’s what I get. Surely if our pay is based on percentage and I’ve worked the entire time I should be owed my full wage? Any advice would be really helpful because I’ve received less than a 3rd or what I normally recieve

OK this is hard without more information.

what does your employment contract say?

What does your payslip actually say this month (does it breakdown hours worked)?

Impossible to answer based on your op

Do you have HR you can ask and your contract to hand?

It should be the full month. I've left plenty of schools and if you give the correct notice, you should be paid the full month (as our salary is yearly ÷ 12 months to cover our 195 days) Contact your school to clarify and if they don't correct, ring the union

Are you a teacher on a permanent contract? If you handed in your notice before 31st May deadline and put in writing the 31st August as your last day then yes you should be paid the full amount as I did this and was paid today my full monthly salary.
I don’t know if it’s different if you’re under a support staff contract or a fixed term contract which may state your employment ends in July. Checking your contract or contacting HR or the business manager might help to clarify it.

I don’t think you’re being silly at all, it’s confusing when schools do pay on pro rata. Usually the salary is spread across the whole year, so if you’ve left at the end of August they sometimes adjust it depending on how many days you’ve technically worked in that contract year. It might look like you’ve been underpaid, but it could just be them “balancing” what you’ve already been paid.

I'm guessing you are support staff on a term time only contract? Generally their holiday year runs from April not September. So in that case you wouldn't accrue enough holidays since April to entitle you to be paid for the whole of the summer, hence the reason you didn't get a full month's pay for August.

If your start date was 1st September in a previous year, you might be able to argue for the calculation to be revisited.