Pay & Payslips
Salary sacrifice, and the figures it quietly reduces
Exchanging gross pay for a benefit changes more than this month's tax, and some of the effects appear years later.
Pay & Payslips
Gross to net, deductions, and reading a payslip properly.
21 articles · updated August 11, 2026 · page 2 of 2
Pay & Payslips
Why two people on the same salary take home different amounts
Same grade, same gross figure, different money in the account. Every one of those differences sits in a line nobody reads.
Pay & Payslips
Benefits in kind, and the tax bill that arrives without a payment
A benefit provided instead of cash is usually still treated as value received. The cost turns up quietly, months after the perk did.
Pay & Payslips
Expenses paid through payroll, and why they are not pay
Reimbursement returns money you already spent. When it is treated as earnings instead, you pay tax for the privilege of funding…
Pay & Payslips
When payroll overpays you and asks for it back
The money arrived, it looked like yours, and it was spent. Recovery is usually lawful, but the amount and the method are both…
Pay & Payslips
Rounding, decimals and the small payslip errors that repeat
An error of a few units per period is invisible and permanent. Repeated across a year it becomes a sum you would have noticed in…
Pay & Payslips
The annual pay statement, and the reconciliation almost nobody does
A year-end summary of pay and deductions is issued in most systems and filed unread in most households. It is the only document…
Pay & Payslips
Voluntary deductions: the lines you agreed to and forgot
Between the tax lines and the net figure sit deductions you consented to, sometimes years ago. Several of them are no longer doing…
Pay & Payslips
The salary in the advert and the figure on your payslip
Job adverts describe pay in a language designed to sound larger. Translating it into a comparable annual number takes five minutes…