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Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.

Calculate how much you have to pay your furloughed employees for hours on furlough and how much you can claim back.

• Updated: 29 October 2021

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

• Overview

  The National Minimum Wage is worked out at an hourly rate, but it applies…

• Paid by the hour

  Workers paid according to the number of hours they are at work are classed…

• Paid an annual salary

  Most people paid an annual salary are classed as doing ‘salaried hours…

• Paid per task or piece of work done

  Workers paid per task they perform or piece of work they do (known as…

• Paid in other ways (unmeasured work)

  If the work is not covered by any of the other types of work, it’s…

Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.

• Updated: 29 October 2021

Find out how to manually calculate your employee’s pay if your payroll software, or the calculator for employers do not work out what they’re entitled to.

• Updated: 17 July 2025

Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.

Use this guidance if your payroll software or Basic PAYE tool does not calculate your employee's payments.

• Updated: 6 April 2025

Check examples to help you calculate your employee's wages, National Insurance contributions and pension contributions if you're claiming through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

• Updated: 29 October 2021

Check if you’re paying a worker the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if you owe them payments for the previous year.

Use this calculator to work out your employee's Statutory Neonatal Care Pay.