Individual Budgets

Personal Assistant Wages and Employers’ Costs April 2007 – April 2008

This is a list of the PA wages that are recommended by Bath & North East Somerset.

When you are working out the cost of employing PA’s, you need to allow both for the wages you will pay (including tax and National Insurance) and for extra costs that you will have as an Employer.  Employers’ costs are things like Employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NIC’s), holiday pay, bank holidays, Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and administrative costs (advertising, insurance, phone calls, Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks, training, payroll, stationery, contingency etc.).

The table below shows the PA gross wage and the Employers’ costs, which are calculated at 30% of the wage.  The total amount is the figure you should use when calculating how many hours you can afford.

These rates are only guidelines.  You can work out your own provided that they comply with employment legislation.