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 each month.
We built it because most salary calculators are generic: they ask for an annual figure and ignore the pay framework you are actually on. This site models the real structure — the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD), the allowances that attach to it, the pension scheme and the contractual 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, prison staff, civil servants and everyone else.
Last updated: 26 September 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, an employer, a government body or a financial services firm. Nobody pays us to present a particular figure.
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 every figure is an estimate — your payslip and your payroll department are always the authority on your actual pay.
The site is free to use and 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, and the figures you type never leave your device.
What this calculator models
- The Main Pay Range (M1–M6), Upper Pay Range, Leadership Pay Range and the Unqualified Teacher Pay Range.
- All four regional pay tables — Rest of England, Fringe, Outer London and Inner London — which are entirely separate scales, not uplifts of one another.
- Part-time work through FTE percentage rather than weekly hours, because STPCD measures directed time annually (1,265 hours over 195 days) rather than per week.
- TLR1, TLR2 and TLR3 payments and SEN allowances, added to basic pay before pension and tax.
- Tiered Teachers’ Pension contributions, and headteacher pay through the eight school group bandings on the leadership spine.
Leadership posts are exempt from directed time but sit on the same pay spine, and FTE scaling applies to part-time leaders in the same way. Academies mostly follow STPCD; where a school has bespoke pay arrangements, a generic calculator is the better fit.
Where the figures come from
Pay scales are taken from the published source for state-school teachers in England — the Department for Education, following the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) report — and typed in by hand against the original document rather than scraped. STPCD pay scales take effect on 1 September for the academic year, so the 2025 award covers 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026.
Tax, National Insurance and student loan thresholds come from HMRC and follow the April tax year, which means they move on a different cadence from the pay award. When the two are out of step, the calculator states which tax year and which pay year it is using, because a figure that silently mixes the two is worse than no figure.
The full source list, the order the calculation runs in and the known limitations are set out on the methodology page.
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 — a screenshot of the relevant payslip line, with personal details removed, makes a report much quicker to act on.