Sample Payslip

Employers are obliged to give their employees and other workers a payslip at or before the date that they receive their wages. This right does not extend to genuinely self-employed sub-contractors or freelancers.

This payslip contains the required elements of a written pay statement under the Employment Rights Act 1996:

- Gross amount of pay before deductions of tax or National Insurance contributions;
- Fixed deductions, such as trade union subscriptions;
- Variable deductions, such as income tax, National Insurance contributions, student loan repayments and employee pension contributions;
- amount of pay;
- Method of payment – to be used where different parts of the net payment are paid in different ways, e.g. part cash and part cheque.
- Hours worked – where pay varies according to the time worked, the total number of hours worked for which that variable pay is paid (as a single figure, or as separate figures for different types of work or different rates of pay).

These elements must be filled in by the employer.

The payslip contains additional elements for a more detailed statement of pay, including:

Pay Rate, where the rate of pay can be set out, i.e. whether it is hourly, annually etc;

- Tax Code;
- National Insurance number;
- Statutory payments such as statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay;

- Additional payments, such as holiday pay, overtime, tips or bonuses;
- Description of the type of wages, i.e. whether it is a basic or bonus wage;
- Employer pension contributions.

Employers are not obliged by law to fill out these additional elements on the payslip; however, it is considered practice to do so.

This payslip is in open format. Either enter the requisite details in the highlighted fields or adjust the wording to suit your purposes.

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Sample Payslip is part of Employment. Just £38.50 + VAT provides unlimited downloads from Employment for 1 year.