If you work 4 on and 4 off, how would YOU accurately calculate what your weekly (normal) pay is? Please show workings for extra points!
Thanks.
global
What you earn a month divided by 4?
Anyone know how to calculate a hard days night?
Your working days work on an 8 day cycle. There are 46 such cycles in a year (OK, it’s 45 and three quarters, but 46 is close enough for government work). So I would take whatever I get paid for one such cycle (i.e. four days’ pay), multiply by 46 (or 45.75 if I was being precious about it) and divide by 52. Of course, if you get paid at different rates for actual hours worked on a Saturday and/or Sunday, things get a bit more complicated.
global:
If you work 4 on and 4 off, how would YOU calculate what your weekly (normal) pay is? Please show workings for extra points!
Thanks.
global
You could add up 8 weeks of pay and divide by 8 for the weekly average wage
8 weeks is 56 days and you would work 28 of those so that’s 28 divided by 8 = 3.5 shifts per week average
weekly average wage divided by 3.5 = average shift pay
Average shift pay divided by average hours per shift = average hourly pay
Think I have that right
when I did 4 on 4 off I was salaried so I just divided by 52 but it cant really be done that way because I was having in effect 6months of the year off so I just divided it by 26 and that gave me a more accurate figure , I was able to do the days off as overtime so I was on quite a good crack but with all these good jobs it came to an end and I had to get back to reality.
I work 4 on 4 off, I just open my pay letter and that tells me how much I will get. In effect, assuming you do no extra days, we get 4 shifts pay 4 times & 3 shifts pay 3 times. Pay week starting Monday.
Mon tue wed thu
Tue wed thu fri
Wed thu fri sat
Thu fri sat sun
Fri sat sun
Mon sat sun
Mon tue sun
It has been asked if we can be salaried to balance out the weeks as all the same to no avail.
Slackbladder:
I work 4 on 4 off, I just open my pay letter and that tells me how much I will get. In effect, assuming you do no extra days, we get 4 shifts pay 4 times & 3 shifts pay 3 times. Pay week starting Monday.
Mon tue wed thu
Tue wed thu fri
Wed thu fri sat
Thu fri sat sun
Fri sat sun
Mon sat sun
Mon tue sun
It has been asked if we can be salaried to balance out the weeks as all the same to no avail.
I knew a driver who had that issue so he set up a new bank account for his pay then paid his usual bank account the average weekly pay which works ok if it starts with the 4 x 4 pay days as shown in your example
That’s quite clever, I would never have come up with that. Bank for me tomorrow I think.
The only way to work your pay out in a meaningful way for comparison is to simply divide the pay by the hours worked, this gives an average hourly rate, or maybe divide the total pay for the year by the number of days worked to give you a figure per shift worked.
Remember when you look at the figure which may well be around £17/25 an hour that this includes 5 weeks of at least one weekend day every 8 week cycle and 3 weeks when you work all weekend, plus in this pattern you will work most bank holidays (may or may not qualify for lieu days, might be included in the pay, might not be) and will be working all Chistmas and all New Year when the pattern calls for it.
I don’t actually do 4 on 4 off but an equivalent pattern in number of days worked, love it, never had so much free time, nor been on a better average hourly rate…but as said i do lots of weekends, bank hols, Boxing Day, New Years Day etc when rota calls.
Swings and roundabouts.
take what you earn for for 4 days of work.
divide by 4
multiply by 3.5
or
take what you earn for 3 days work
divide by 3
multiply by 3.5
I worked a 4 on 4 off shift system on a salaried basis. Basic pay was £22,179 plus extra for B/H and overtime. As I had 4 days off every week, I used to book 2 days A/L and work them as O/T. Good little number, which unfortunately ended with redundancy last Christmas.
global:
If you work 4 on and 4 off, how would YOU accurately calculate what your weekly (normal) pay is? Please show workings for extra points!
Thanks.
global
Gross annual wage/52.
365 days in a year divided by eight = 45.63 periods in a year
annual pay divided by 45.63 = pay for eight day period
divided by four = daily pay (four on four off)
divided by the hours worked = hourly pay
Does that look about right?
global.