How to Compare Workplace Benefits Beyond the Headline Savings
Workplace benefits are often sold with a single eye-catching number: save this much tax, pay this much less each month, or get this much extra in your pension. Headline…
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Plain-English guides to UK pay, salary sacrifice, pensions and workplace benefits.
Can Salary Sacrifice Affect Statutory Pay and Other Benefits?
Salary sacrifice sounds simple: you agree to give up part of your gross salary, and your employer provides something else instead, such as extra pension contributions, a cycle, or…
What Happens to a Salary Sacrifice Arrangement When You Change Jobs?
If you are in a salary sacrifice arrangement and thinking about a new job, it is natural to wonder what happens next. Does the arrangement simply stop? Do you…
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Schemes: Costs and Questions to Consider
An electric car salary sacrifice scheme lets you give up part of your gross salary in exchange for a leased electric car, usually with insurance, servicing and maintenance bundled…
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Salary Sacrifice and the National Minimum Wage: What Employees Should Check
Salary sacrifice can be a useful workplace benefit, but it comes with an important limit. If you give up part of your pay in exchange for something else, your…
Understanding Your UK Payslip: Gross Pay, Deductions and Take-Home Pay
Your payslip can look confusing at first. Numbers appear in several columns, abbreviations pop up without explanation, and the amount that reaches your bank account is often quite different…
10 Questions to Ask Your Employer Before Joining a Salary Sacrifice Scheme
A salary sacrifice scheme can be a useful way to build up your pension, but it changes your contractual salary, so it is worth asking a few clear questions…
How Salary Sacrifice Pensions Work: Key Terms Explained
If you have ever read a workplace pension letter and felt lost in the jargon, you are not alone. Salary sacrifice sounds complicated, but the basic idea is fairly…
Salary Sacrifice vs Salary Deduction: What’s the Difference?
Open a UK payslip and you may see several lines that reduce your pay before it reaches your bank account. Two of the most confusing are salary sacrifice and…
What Is Salary Sacrifice? A Beginner’s Guide for UK Employees
If you have spotted the phrase “salary sacrifice” in your employer’s benefits booklet, you may have wondered whether it means giving up pay for nothing in return. It does…