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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…

What to do about tax and National Insurance if you pay an employee free of tax.

• Updated: 12 June 2014

Find out how to operate PAYE if you pay your employees with assets that can be sold or cashed in, like stocks, shares or cryptoassets.

• Updated: 19 December 2018

Reporting and paying tax on payments received for use of image rights, including payments made to an image rights company.

• Updated: 16 August 2017

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

Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.

Tax and reporting rules for employers who meet or reimburse an employee's expenses - scale rate payments round sum allowances (RSA)

What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

Over 3 million eligible workers set for a pay rise of up to £1,400 a year as new National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates take effect.

• Updated: 1 April 2025