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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…

The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates: age, apprentices, previous years.

Use these rates and thresholds when you operate your payroll or provide expenses and benefits to your employees.

• Updated: 25 August 2016

Check a list of recent emails from HMRC to help you decide if the email you've received is a scam.

• Updated: 25 July 2025

This collection brings together all documents about the the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.

• Updated: 19 February 2020

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

The Low Pay Commission has updated its projections for the National Living Wage in 2026.

• Updated: 5 August 2025

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 these rates and thresholds when you operate your payroll or provide expenses and benefits to your employees.

• Updated: 1 March 2025

Use these rates and thresholds when you operate your payroll or provide expenses and benefits to your employees.

• Updated: 10 June 2025