Maths Help Again Please

[eve1974]

Hello

As some of you might know from my prev questions on here I simply CANNOT do maths. Even simple maths like counting change!

So please will one of you clever clogs help me with the following:

What will the monthly salary be if someone earns 20K a year ?
What will the monthly salary be if someone learns 15K a year?

I know there's things like NI, tax etc to come off too.

Thank you in advance!

[fiction-factory]

Gross salary- divide by 12
Net salary- depends on quite a few things such as whether worked for full tax year

[aelmpvw]

divide by 12

[elliemay1]

//£20000 After Tax 2019. For the 2019 / 2020 tax year £20,000 after tax is £17,136 annually and it makes £1,428 net monthly salary. This net wage is calculated with the assumption that you are younger than 65, not married and with no pension deductions, no childcare vouchers, no student loan payment//

[fiction-factory]

This may help with net salary

[elliemay1]

Similarly,
//£15000 After Tax 2019. For the 2019 / 2020 tax year £15,000 after tax is £13,736 annually and it makes £1,145 net monthly salary.//

[fiction-factory]

missing link
https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php

[fiction-factory]

Which bit's do you have difficulty with, eve? Dividing by 12?
Calculating tax and NI? Or simply knowing where to start?

[fiction-factory]

bits not bit's- no idea how that happened

[Old_Geezer]

Twelves into twenty goes 1 remainder 8
Twelves into 80 goes 6 remainder 8.
Hmm can see a pattern here
Twelves into £20,000 must be £1,666.67 then.

Twelves into fifteen goes 1 remainder 3
Twelves into 30 goes 2 remainder 6
Twelves into 60 goes 5 remainder 0
Twelves into £15,000 must be £1,250 then

[fiction-factory]

That's okay if you know you need to divide by 12 though O-G. Some people just don't know which operation to use.

[Old_Geezer]

True, but most folk know that there are 12 months in a year.

[eve1974]

a BIG thank you to EVERY one of you who answered. This place is such a big help for random questions. Elliemay1 ur answer explained it perfectly ty!

O-G:
ty for writing out the sums but tbh I was confused before the end of line one. My maths is THAT bad. Think of it as a sort of dyslexia but with numbers. I also struggle with L vs R, analogue clocks, distances, counting change etc. I'm not stupid (well not too stupid anyway lol) but anything to do with figures is really hard for me. Embarrassing.

Fiction-factory:
It's the entire part I find hard - even if I knew where to start the moment I saw the digits on the calculator I would be lost haha!

[fiction-factory]

Yet presumably you can visualise what the number of £1,428 (net monthly salary) represents- I'm wondering what the difference is between seeing the figures on here and seeing them on a calculator

[jno]

maybe you have dyscalculia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia

[fiction-factory]

I think elliemay's figures are described as 'after tax' but are actually after tax and NI

[eve1974]

F-F - yes I can visualise the figure (well not in my brain but I can "read" or even "type" the figure but then it's the computing as to how that figure was arrived at that is impossible). So yes I would see it on a calculator but not know which steps were needed to get there. Or if someone told me the steps I'd input them but would either get lost half way through or ...not know why the steps were there in the first place. Does this make sense? Probably not lol!

Jno:
Yeah I've heard that term bandied about in recent years and I reckon that could be exactly what it is. Obviously when I was at school, none of that was thought of. My poor parents tried their best to help me and even paid for extra maths lessons but...even the tutor gave up...no jokes!

[eve1974]

Jno -
interesting link - I just had a quick read and found wiki mentions that it causes probs with directions when driving too. Well, it's a well known joke in the family that I can get lost in a cul-de-sac!

I find lots of lovely places en route to where I'm supposed to be headed when I'm going in the wrong direction. Only thing is I'd never find my way back to them again. I'll come back much longer from a trip that should've taken me half n hour because I've gone such a random route that I've gone like double the distance and so I'm often late (though I really TRY not to be but it's cos I get lost all the bloody time lol). Things like figuring out which light switch turns on which light is a simple thing even for a little kiddie but for me....nope!

I'm not that bothered as figure those who love me know it's how I am (though it can be embarrassing with strangers)

[pixie374]

Don't worry, eve... I tell people that I don't exactly "get lost"- it's just that often when I get to where I'm going, it isn't there :-)

[eve1974]

Pixie374
Love that explanation! That's perfect!

[THECORBYLOON]

Are you okay with dividing a number by two or three?