National Payroll Week - Payroll Quiz!

Today we celebrated the end of National Payroll Week with cakes, cookies and a Payroll Quiz! 🧁🍪  Top marks to Jenna who scored the full 16/16! Here is the quiz - how many answers do you know? answers revealed Friday! 


National Payroll Week

Payroll Quiz

#keepukpaid   #NPW20


1. What does PAYE stand for?


2. How many weeks Statutory Maternity Leave are you entitled to?

Bonus point : how many weeks do you receive Statutory Maternity Pay?


3. What does the M stand for in a tax code?


4. What do you call a statement of earnings at the end of tax year? P9X /P60 /P45 /P11D


5. Do you get less salary in a shorter month?


6. What have you joined if you have been auto enrolled?

a) A final salary pension 

b) A state pension

c) Work pace pension

d) Private pension


7. What is the national living wage for those age over 25? £7.83 /£8.21 /£8.72 /£8.92. 


8. True or False? All employers have to re-enrol employees into their workplace pension every 3 years


9. What is the difference between gross and net pay?


10. What is the basic rate of income tax? 


11. What year was National Payroll Week created? 1990/ 1989/ 1998/ 2001


12. What does HMRC stand for?


13. Who pays National Insurance - Employee / Employer / Both?


14. The first month in the UK tax year is January / June / April?


15. What is the current amount of Statutory Sick Pay per week? £94.25 /£95.85 /£96.45