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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,…
Your employer is not allowed to make deductions unless: it’s required or…
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…
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.
Wage slips must show any deductions and explain them - not everyone has the right to a payslip
Find out how to set up salary sacrifice arrangements and calculate tax and National Insurance contributions on them if you're an employer.
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
How to report expenses and benefits you provide to employees or directors.
Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.
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