PLEASE HELP 😭 Anyone in payroll?? Or any teachers!

I am a teacher and was due the 5% increase this month and back pay to September. My payslip has been sent through and I’ve been paid less this month than last month WITH my back pay! All the “retroactive” payments are the back pay that was due from September. But they have taken a £875 deduction from my pay and I have no idea why (this doesn’t even add up to the amount of back pay I should have got!) 😭😭😭😭 I’ve rung my school and they’ve said they will try to speak to payroll but assume it’s correct. Please help me, I feel in my gut that this isn’t right and I’m being fobbed off. I should have been getting, £711 OMP, £788 SMP and £111 TLR (which you can even see on my payslip!!!), which comes to £1610 without any back pay. So how can I be getting LESS when there should have been over £800 backpay. Can anyone is Payroll make sense of this payslip?? I have been sobbing for hours, I’m struggling to make ends meet at the moment and now this! They’ve also had the audacity to email and say they over paid me by £212 in September so will be deducting that from me next month 😭

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I’d contact payroll yourself instead of letting school sort it. You’ll get it sorted quicker xx

I’m not a teacher but I work for the NHS and one year I was due a back pay and I literally got £10 more. The tax, NI, pension literally took it all. I questioned it and they said it was correct, so not sure if it’s the same.

I’m a teacher, and when receiving back pay in previous pay rises the amount of tax/ NI/ pension contributions that has been taken has been ridiculous! You can end up not really receiving much more or sometimes less

I have had this with work recently - were you on maternity when you are due the back pay? If so you basically don’t get it and then mr tax man takes most of it anyway. Obviously get it checked but I basically missed out on the back pay because of SMP. I ended up with £200 extra this month and that was from a pay rise and 4 month backpay 😭 my payslip is a confusing mess too but definitely get on to HR and figure out what it all means.

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