Pay and benefits help for small teams
Find the right rate, understand the employee cost and give payroll a record it can use.
UK statutory rates for employers
Check the common pay, payroll, pension and redundancy figures for 2026/27, with the date and nation attached.
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True cost of an employee calculator
Salary, employer NI and the pension minimum from a dated statutory source. Get a defensible hiring cost, with the working shown.
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Payroll hand-off checklist
The employee changes to check before each pay run.
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UK minimum wage
The UK minimum wage is the legal hourly pay floor for eligible workers, based on age and apprenticeship status.
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Payroll
Payroll is the employer process for recording pay, calculating deductions, paying people and reporting the figures to HMRC.
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Payslip
A payslip is the itemised statement an employer gives on or before payday, showing gross pay, deductions and net pay for that pay period.
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National Insurance contributions
Class 1 National Insurance contributions (NICs) include amounts deducted from employee earnings and separate amounts paid by employers.
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Workplace pension automatic enrolment
Workplace pension automatic enrolment is the UK employer duty to assess workers and enrol eligible jobholders into an automatic enrolment scheme.
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PAYE
PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is HMRC’s system through which employers report payroll, deduct Income Tax and employee NICs, and account for employer NICs.
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