Originally posted by Lance
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£1300 / £8.72 (minimum hourly wage) ~= 149 hours
37.5 hours per week x 4 weeks = 150 hours
I haven't figured out the exact calculations for holiday pay, but I've been looking at this page:
Calculating holiday pay for workers without fixed hours or pay - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
According to that, everyone should get 5.6 weeks (i.e. 28 days) of paid annual leave for every 52 weeks that they work; in most permie roles, that would be 20 days + 8 bank holidays.
In 2020, there were 262 weekdays, i.e. 234 + 28 days of leave.
For the past year, my holiday pay has been roughly £26/day based on my timesheet (e.g. £130 for 5 days or £78 for 3 days). So, suppose that I was letting the umbrella accrue it on my behalf, then pay out on days I don't work (rather than managing it myself).
£26 per day x 234 days = £6,084 (i.e. that's how much would go into the holiday fund per year)
£6,084 / 28 days = £217.29 per day = £1,086 per week (i.e. that's how much I'd get paid for time off)
Looking at my sample payslip in the previous post, I got £334 basic + £743 additional = £1,078.
I.e. that would be my weekly gross salary if I didn't get the holiday pay upfront.
£1078 is roughly equal to £1086, so my holiday pay is based on my "real" salary rather than minimum wage.
In the OP's scenario, I assume that £113,965 (gross) per year = £9497 per month = £1300 basic + £8197 bonus/holiday. We'd need them to provide a redacted payslip to confirm that.
I think this is a good news/bad news scenario for the OP.
Good news: if holiday pay is based on "real" salary, that should count as evidence for the mortgage lender.
Bad news: the annual salary will be a bit lower than £113k, because you can't count the holiday pay twice.
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