Take home pay from Minimum Wage

nikie gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

I made a typo ... I meant "takehome wage" not "takehome page". I know the minimum wage but not what deductions apply.

Nikie gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Umm, did you look at that link? It answers your question about annual holidays. There's a clue in the URL.

Takehome pay will depend on a whole bunch of variables - tax credits, tax code, etc etc.

in very rough terms 150 a week

It should be £5.93 I think and I get take home of £180.20 on the salary calculator

It never fails to amaze me that people get out of bed on five separate occasions for that pittance. Anything less than £10 an hour is not a living wage in this day and age.

depends on how many hours ....

It's exactly what D was earning 12 years ago for 3 x 12 hour night shifts (continental system).

The alternative (as I discovered) is £65.45 a week.

For a 37.5hr week, monthly takehome pay is currently £825 on minimum wage - trust me, if the option is £65.45 a week or £825 a month, you'll take the £825.

Personally, I'd drop miminum wage to £5 an hour (to help small businesses) but make it entirely deduction free so whatever you earn you keep.

Thank you for your optimism.

I'm full of good ideas - I once foolishly suggested on a Usenet rail forum that the way to cut dead time on train services (dead time is the time a train sits at a station waiting for the sweaty masses to get off and on) would be to have a designated door for embarking and another door for disembarking.

Shot down in flames, I was.

Apparently, your average British commuter wouldn't understand, and wouldn't stand for, such a concept.

I weep for your country.

To inaccurately paraphrase someone in Dad's Army "you're all doomed"

Tax codes are rising this year. Clegg is pledging to attempt to raise the basic allowance to 10000 before the next election

Most of my employees used to be women bringing in a second income to the household. While I paid well above minimum, most of them had done minimum wage jobs, as those were often the only ones open to women who need to work around school hours.

Colin Bignell

So is the NI rate :-(

I don't pay that.

Thank you for your optimism.

I'm full of good ideas - I once foolishly suggested on a Usenet rail forum that the way to cut dead time on train services (dead time is the time a train sits at a station waiting for the sweaty masses to get off and on) would be to have a designated door for embarking and another door for disembarking.

Shot down in flames, I was.

Apparently, your average British commuter wouldn't understand, and wouldn't stand for, such a concept.

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Of course they understand.

They would understand that they could get off the train much quicker by cheating and standing by the entrance door.

It wouldn't work for 5 minutes because people (or every nationality) are selfish

tim

I wonder what proportion of them were claiming single parent tax credits though.

That would mean a loss to us of £30 a week in wages - it's not the £5.93 an hour that's the problem AIUI - it's the NI. D pays nearly as much NI as tax, and his employer pays whatever it is in NI on top of that. I just paid tax, Class 2 and Class 4 NICS on my £8k income - what's the class 4 (8%) for? Nothing - it's just another tax.

And how much will we lose in tax credits for that increase? Tax credits have been frozen. It's a con-juring trick - steal more from the middle-earners on the pretence that you are helping the poor, and then steal it back from the poor and give yourself a payrise.