Payslips

Some categories are exempt from this:

• Non employees, for example (contractors, freelancers or 'workers')
• a member of the police service
• a merchant seaman, master or crew member working in share fishing and paid solely by a share in the profits or gross earnings of a fishing vessel

Every pay statement must contain the following information:

• amount of your wages before any deductions (gross wages)
• individual amount of any fixed deductions (such as trade union subscriptions) or the total amount of these deductions if you are given a 'standing statement of fixed deductions' as detailed below
• individual amount of any variable deductions (for example, tax)
• net amount of your wages (this is the total after deductions)
• amount and method for any part-payment of wage (such as separate figures of a cash payment and the balance credited to a bank account)

Your employer might include additional information on your payslip which they are not required to provide, such as:

• National Insurance number
• tax codes
• pay rate (either annual or hourly)
• additional payments like overtime, tips or bonuses, which might be shown separately

If an employer does not set out any fixed deductions in employees pay slips, they must provide a standing statement of fixed deductions every 12 months.

This must be in writing and include:

• the amount and intervals at which the deduction is made
• contain the purpose or description of the deduction

It must be given to employees before their first payslip with the fixed deductions