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Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
The National Minimum Wage is worked out at an hourly rate, but it applies…
Workers paid according to the number of hours they are at work are classed…
Most people paid an annual salary are classed as doing ‘salaried hours…
Workers paid per task they perform or piece of work they do (known as…
If the work is not covered by any of the other types of work, it’s…
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,…
Your employer is not allowed to make deductions unless: it’s required or…
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.
Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Calculate how much you have to pay your furloughed employees for hours on furlough and how much you can claim back.
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.
Estimate how much Income Tax and National Insurance you can expect to pay for the current tax year (6 April 2025 to 5 April 2026).
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 an employee’s maternity pay (SMP), paternity or adoption pay, relevant period and average weekly earnings
What you must do by law with a deductions from earnings order (DEO or AEO) to make child maintenance deductions from your employee's pay.
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