Need help with a salaries/payroll question please?

[ICEQUEEN20]

I have changed my hours at work from 30 hours a week (every week) to one week I now work 36 hours then the following week 37.5 hours and so on... I have a new hourly rate of £9.87 per hour. Our payroll person left last month and as we work for a very small company (5 of us) my boss is trying to muddle through my new salary payslip - but I am not too confident about it ! Help how is this worked out pro rata ? (I have never done wages/accounts)... What should the exact gross figure be?

[Im a BusyBee]

I would pay you £1571.81 per month gross.

[ICEQUEEN20]

so how have you reached that figure please? Thank you

[dr b]

Why is it not as simple as taking 9.87 times the number of hours you worked that week? What am I missing? Do you get paid weekly, monthly etc.? Do you always work 36 hours one week followed by 37.5 the next, then 36 again?

[ICEQUEEN20]

By busy-bees calculation it looks like it is taken as an overall average week being 36.75 times by 52 weeks then divided by 12 months.

[dothawkes31]

That's how it will have to be done, as if you have holiday entitlement you won't be in work at all, and so making your pay salaried also allows for that.