About Teacher Take Home

Teacher Take Home (teacherstakehome.co.uk) is a free, independent take-home pay calculator for state-school teachers in England. It turns a gross salary into an itemised breakdown of income tax, National Insurance, pension contributions and student loan repayments, so you can see what actually reaches your bank account.

We built it because most salary calculators are generic: they ignore the pay framework you are actually on. This site models the real structure — the pay scales set by the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), the allowances, the pension scheme and the working week — rather than treating your salary as an arbitrary number.

It is part of a network of UK take-home pay calculators that also covers NHS staff, doctors, police officers, firefighters, teachers and everyone else.

Last updated: 18 August 2026

Who runs this site

The site is operated by Dabble Solutions Ltd, a UK-registered company (company number 17016788), trading as Take Home Network. It is run by an independent UK-based software developer, not by a union, employer, government body or financial services firm.

We are not financial advisers, accountants or tax agents. We are engineers who think the UK pay and tax system should be legible to the people living under it. Nothing on this site is financial advice, and the figures are estimates — your payslip and your payroll department are always the authority on your actual pay.

The site is free to use, funded by advertising and occasional sponsorship. We do not collect, store or transmit any salary information you enter — the calculator runs entirely in your browser.

What this calculator models

• STPCD pay awards take effect on 1 September and run for the academic year, not the tax year.
• All four regional tables are modelled: Rest of England, Fringe, Outer London and Inner London, across the Main, Upper, Leadership and Unqualified ranges.
• Part-time pay uses the FTE (full-time equivalent) percentage model, because STPCD works on annual directed time (1,265 hours over 195 days) rather than a weekly hours figure.
• TLR and SEN allowances are modelled, as are the eight headteacher group bandings on the leadership spine.
• Pension uses the Teachers’ Pension Scheme tiered contribution rates, which change each April on a separate cycle from the September pay award.

The 2026 STRB award is expected in autumn 2026. Until the DfE publishes the new STPCD, the site shows the 2025/26 scales.

Corrections

If a figure looks wrong, please tell us — corrections from people who actually receive these payslips are the most valuable feedback we get, and several have been fixed within a day of being reported. Email contact@teacherstakehome.co.uk or use the contact page.