- No. This explains what every line on an Agenda for Change payslip means, using a worked example you can point at. It does not read your payslip or compare it with anything. The Personalised Payslip Check does that, setting your own payslip against the shifts you worked.
- The layout is a real ESR payslip's, line for line. The person and every figure are invented, worked out from the NHS Employers pay scales and GOV.UK's tax and National Insurance rates for this year, so you can check each one yourself.
- An enhancement: extra pay for unsocial hours. Saturday EN and Night Duty EN are your Saturday and weekday night hours, Sunday EN your Sunday hours, and a bank holiday has its own line. The extra is a percentage of your hourly rate set by your band: 30% and 60% from Band 4 up, more for Bands 1 to 3.
- Payroll writes the extra as hours at your normal rate. The first column is the hours you worked, the second is those hours times your band's percentage, and the amount is that times your hourly rate. Your normal pay for those hours is already in Basic Pay, so the line only carries the extra.
- Most trusts pay unsocial hours and overtime a month behind, once the month's timesheet or roster is finished, so a June payslip pays May's shifts. Some pay a set amount each month instead, which should come out broadly the same over time.
- Holiday pay on your enhancements. When you take annual leave you are paid as if you had been at work, so the unsocial hours you regularly work carry on into your leave, worked out from your average over the months before. AfC Absence NP is the same for regular overtime, and NP means it does not count towards your pension.
- NP means non-pensionable, OT is overtime, and Arrs is back pay, printed on the line it belongs to. You may also see NNI, not subject to National Insurance, and an R in the deductions for a refund.
- The percentage is a tier set by your pensionable pay over the year: your basic pay, any high cost area supplement, your unsocial hours and the holiday pay on them. Part time, the tier follows what you actually earn, so two people on the same band can pay different percentages.
- Check the tax code first, at the top of your payslip. Payroll can only deduct on the code HMRC sends, so a wrong code means wrong tax however carefully it is worked out. NONCUM after the code means it is being worked on this month alone, which is common in a new job until HMRC catches up.
