- You need the rota, and that is the whole point of it. Anyone can tell you what a grade pays on average; this tells you what YOUR month should have paid, from the shifts you actually worked, and then sets your payslip against that. So you build the rotation and paint its rota first, then add a month.
- Every gross line the 2016 contract can pay you: basic, additional rostered hours, night enhancement, the weekend allowance, non-resident on-call availability, the LTFT allowance, London weighting and any flexible pay premium. Each is set against what your own rota says that element should have paid for the month.
- Probably not. Anything within £1 of the expected figure is treated as a match, because payroll rounds and so does the contract's arithmetic. What the check is looking for is a line that is wrong by an amount you would care about, or missing altogether.
- No. Arrears and backpay get a line of their own and are set aside before the verdict, precisely so that a trust paying the restructure backdated to April does not come out looking like it overpaid you. The verdict is on the month's own gross lines.
- Say so and give the date you were paid from. The month is then worked out as a twelfth of the year scaled by the days you were paid over the days in the month, which is the contract's own rule for a part month rather than an approximation of it.
- Yes, each one separately, because who you contact depends on which one is wrong. Pension, National Insurance and student loan are worked out on the month alone, so a figure that does not match is payroll's to fix and the row says so. Income tax is different: it is cumulative across the year and follows the code HMRC sends, so that row shows you the difference and points you at your tax code rather than at your trust.
- Basic pay, the weekend allowance and London weighting have to be entered as an amount or as 0, so that "not on my payslip" is something you told us rather than a box you skipped. A missing weekend allowance is one of the things most worth catching, and it cannot be caught if a blank field and a genuine zero look the same.
- You get the line, the figure it expected, the figure you typed and the shifts behind it, which is what a payroll query needs to be answered rather than argued about. The correction email is written from that same result, so you are not starting from a blank page.
- It tells you, and on which line. Backpay and arrears are set aside first, so a month with the restructure in it does not read as an overpayment, and a genuine excess is shown against the line it sits on. What happens next is your trust's overpayment policy rather than something this tool can answer, but knowing which element it was and by how much is what turns that conversation into a specific one.
- No. It is a comparison between the contract's arithmetic on the rota you painted and the figures you typed, so it is only as right as both of those. It is built to give you something specific to raise with payroll. For anything about your tax position or a large sum, speak to a chartered accountant.
