From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: NI Calculation
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:11:28 +0000 (UTC)

> > "Andy Pandy" wrote
> >> This is unlikely to have anything to do
> >> with the number of tax weeks in the year.
> >
> "Tim" wrote:
> > ... which is why my first comment used the *actual*
> > number of days this year instead (365.00, not 365.25).
> >
> > ...
> >
> > If the weekly rate was only £498.29, as Matti
> > suggested, then the annual rate this year would only
> > be £25,982 -- less than the £26K quoted by the OP.
>
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
> Is it not the case that any job described as
> having a certain annual salary would tend
> to involve monthly rather than weekly pay?

It's interesting, isn't it?

Yeh, perhaps most employments with salaries quoted "pa" would generally be
paid monthly.
But then the term of employment would then usually be specified in months as
well, wouldn't it?

The OP specifies an annual salary, and a term in weeks.  I wonder if they'd
like to clarify whether the job will be paid monthly or weekly?

The total NI paid, of course, could be affected by this...
[Monthly-paid effectively gets a full two months' worth of thresholds,
whereas weekly-paid may only get just over 80% of that much thresholds.]