- No, and that is the one thing worth knowing before you start. This explains what every line on an NHS payslip means, using a worked example you can point at. It does not read your payslip or compare it with anything. The tool that does that is the Personalised Payslip Check, which reads a real month against the rota you actually worked.
- The layout is. It follows a genuine ESR payslip, down to the short codes payroll prints rather than plain English, so you can recognise your own. The doctor is invented, and every figure is calculated from the same 2026/27 pay scales the calculator uses, so putting their details into the calculator gives the same numbers back.
- Because that is how ESR states it. The night line shows the hours you actually worked in the night window under WKD/EARNED, then 37% of those hours under PAID/DUE, priced at your plain basic hourly rate. It is the same money as a 37% enhancement; payroll just expresses the enhancement as extra hours instead of a higher rate, which is why the RATE column looks unenhanced.
- Non-pensionable. It is ESR's own suffix, and on the additional roster hours line it is the clearest proof in the document that hours above 40 a week do not count towards your pension: your PENSIONABLE PAY figure will equal your Basic Pay line exactly.
- Payroll uses short codes, not sentences: London weighting prints as 'Ldn Zone', your weekend frequency as its band in the circular's own notation. The facsimile keeps those strings so what you see here matches what is on your own payslip, and the full name and the explanation are in the hover.
- Likely ones are covered underneath the payslip: pay protection and cash floor, non-resident on-call availability, a flexible pay premium, bank or locum work, and the 2019 flexible pay transition. The example is one doctor's month, so it cannot show every line at once.
- Because it is not charged on all of it. Basic pay for the first 40 hours a week counts, plus your on-call supplement and London weighting. Weekend allowance, night enhancement, hours above 40 and locum work do not, which is why the deduction looks smaller than your tier suggests. The BMA lists what counts as pensionable pay.
- A wrong tax code in your first months usually corrects itself: PAYE is cumulative, so once the right code arrives the system repays the difference in the next payslip rather than needing a claim. The deductions section says what each code means and who to contact when one is genuinely wrong.
