ProRata CalculateNotes on Part-Time Pay, Checked Figures & Advert Small Print
Practical articles on part-time pay: how to decode a pro rata job advert before you apply, and how to check a payslip for the mistakes that cost part-time workers money.
Articles
Five Pro Rata Pay Mistakes (and How to Check Your Own Payslip)
Holiday counted on the wrong days, a year treated as 52 weeks in one place and 52.14 in another, a personal allowance that should never shrink, and term-time paid weeks gone missing. Each mistake comes with the check that exposes it in minutes.
Before You Apply: How to Decode a “£X Pro Rata” Job Advert
Three real-style adverts, decoded line by line — including the one where the stated salary had already been reduced and the unwary would have halved it again — plus the three questions to ask any employer who quotes a pro rata figure.
Guides
How to Calculate Pro Rata Salary
How to work out pro rata salary step by step, with worked examples for hours, days and term-time patterns.
What Does Pro Rata Mean?
The phrase decoded in plain English — what it does to a salary, and how the same idea applies to holiday, rent and refunds.
Pro Rata Holiday Entitlement for Part-Time Workers
The 5.6-week legal floor, bank holidays, mid-year hour changes and auditing your own leave in about ten minutes.
Start with the tools
Most readers arrive from a search, check a figure on the pro rata calculator, and then read the article that matches their situation. If your question is about leave rather than pay, begin with the holiday calculator and the entitlement guide. If an advert brought you here, the advert article above was written for exactly that moment — and the step-by-step guide will let you verify any employer’s arithmetic by hand, forever, in about ninety seconds.
Corrections and suggestions are welcome at [email protected] — tell us which figure you were checking and what did not add up, and we will either fix the page or explain the discrepancy.