Barclays LifeSkills - Calculating salaries & payslips

Calculating salaries & payslips (age 14-16) – 35 minutes

The activities encourage students to become familiar with reading a payslip and calculate pay, explore loans and pensions, and identify employee benefits beyond a salary.

By the end of the activity students will have:

• Identified the main features of a payslip and be able to explain some
key terms.

• Calculated gross and net pay accounting for a range of deductions.

• Identified employee benefits beyond salary.