1. Personnel number: If you have more than one contract you may have several personnel numbers. Your payslip will only display your personnel number from your primary contract. 

2. NAT. INS: If you have a National Insurance number (NI) it will be displayed here. Everyone will have a NI category code usually an A, but C if you are over the age of retirement.

3. Tax code: Common codes include 1257L (Standard tax code for 2023/24 which corresponds to an annual tax allowance of £12,570). Your code may be slightly different if you have allowances or additional taxable earnings. BR If you have another source of income or if you've started with us and don't have a P45 and haven't yet completed a P46. This means that all your taxable pay will be taxed at 20%. 0T If your allowances have been used up or reduced to nil, your income will be taxed at the relevant rate (20%, 40% or 45%). If you think your tax code is wrong, you must inform HMRCLink opens in a new window directly.  

4. Basis: There are two bases: Cumulative (C) your earnings to date are compared to your tax allowance to date and Week one/Month one (W1/M1) you are taxed purely on your taxable pay in that month.  

5. Tax Period & "Ending": The tax year runs from April to March (tax period 1 to 12). Ending refers to the last day in the month in which you are being paid. Even though the University pays employees on its main payroll on 24th of the month, your pay is for the whole calendar month. 

6. Payments & Units: Your salary figure should equate to 1/12 of your annual salary (before any salary sacrifice arrangements). Note that if you are in any salary sacrifice schemes such as for pension, childcare or cycle to work, you will see a negative figure here. Units will display total hours worked for certain payments such as overtime. Where there are arrears (*) this is a reference to a previous month's adjustment. 

7. Non-taxable pay (inc pens): Items such as pension contributions including 'Additional Voluntary Contributions payments' (AVC) and 'Give as you Earn' (GAYE) contributions are deducted from your pay when calculating how much is taxable.  

8. Taxable pay: This is a total of your payments less any salary sacrifice deductions, pension (including AVC) payments & GAYE. 

9. Total payments: Total payments is the sum of non-taxable pay and taxable pay (7 plus 8). 

10.Deductions: These include tax and national insurance (NI). If you have Union Subscriptions, Student Loan, GAYE these will appear here. If you are in a non-salary sacrifice pension, you will see your pension contributions as a deduction. Underneath this column is the total sum of deductions in the month. 

11.Net Paid: Total payments less the total deductions. The amount paid to your bank account.