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UK Payroll & HR Glossary
- PAYE
- Pay As You Earn — the system UK employers use to deduct Income Tax and National Insurance from wages and pay them to HMRC.
- National Insurance
- National Insurance is a UK tax on earnings paid by employees and employers that builds entitlement to the state pension; each employee has a category letter that sets the rate.
- P60
- A certificate showing an employee's total pay and the tax deducted over the UK tax year.
- P45
- The form an employer gives an employee when they leave, showing pay and tax to date.
- Tax code
- A code (e.g. 1257L) that tells the employer how much tax-free income an employee is entitled to under PAYE.
- National Minimum Wage
- The National Minimum Wage is the lowest hourly pay UK law lets an employer pay; from April 2026 the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 an hour.
- Pension auto-enrolment
- Pension auto-enrolment is the UK law that requires every employer to automatically put eligible workers into a workplace pension and pay contributions into it.
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is the legal minimum an eligible UK employee gets when too ill to work: up to £123.25 a week in 2026/27, for up to 28 weeks.
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