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Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
When you start work, your employer should tell you how much you’ll be paid…
Knowing how to work out your weekly pay is important because it’s used to…
If your pay or working hours vary from week to week, the calculations for…
Your employer should base your performance-related pay on clear,…
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Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
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.
Manually calculate if your payroll software or GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Consultations and documents from Make Work Pay, a government initiative on labour market reform.
Tax and reporting rules for employers who meet or reimburse an employee's expenses - scale rate payments round sum allowances (RSA)
How to report expenses and benefits you provide to employees or directors.
Find out how to manually calculate Statutory Maternity Pay if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not work out your employee’s payments.
What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.
Find out how to check your payslip to make sure you are not involved in a tax avoidance scheme, operated by some umbrella companies.
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