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It is illegal for your employer to pay you below the National Living Wage, so check your pay and talk to your manager to make sure you’re getting the wages you are entitled to.

• Updated: 19 October 2023

Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay

• Overview

  When you start work, your employer should tell you how much you’ll be paid…

• Working out your pay

  Knowing how to work out your weekly pay is important because it’s used to…

• Pay calculations if you work shifts or get bonuses

  If your pay or working hours vary from week to week, the calculations for…

• Performance-related pay

  Your employer should base your performance-related pay on clear,…

• Deductions from your pay

  Your employer is not allowed to make deductions unless: it’s required or…

Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.

• Updated: 6 April 2025

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments

Tax and reporting rules for employers providing medical or dental treatment and insurance

Withhold tax on payments to foreign entertainers and sportspersons when they exceed their personal allowance and how to make payments to HMRC.

• Updated: 31 July 2017

Rules covering how entertainment and modelling agencies work; charging fees and refunds for for finding work

Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)

When debt payments can be taken from your wages, changing how much you pay, paying it off early, and reporting a change to your circumstances

Tom Winsor conducted an independent review of police officer and staff remuneration and conditions, published March 2011.

• Updated: 26 March 2013