Salary exchange in plain English
What changes on your payslip, shown with worked examples.
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This is a concept direction: the idea, the audience and the design approach, written up before the demo is built. The picture above is a sketch of the layout, not a screenshot.
The interactive feature
Worked payslip examples
Choose one of three example salaries to see a before and after payslip. No salary is typed in or stored.
Figures and assumptions. Example payslips would use stated, simplified tax and National Insurance rates for one tax year and be labelled illustrative.
The concept
- What it addresses
- Salary exchange (salary sacrifice) explanations, which tend to lean on tax and National Insurance terms.
- Who it is for
- Employees offered salary exchange who are unsure what it does to take-home pay.
- Their main task
- See how salary exchange changes take-home pay and pension payments.
- The next step it offers
- Check the scheme's own figures or speak to HR about joining.
- Visual direction
- Two payslips side by side, before and after, with the differences highlighted and labelled.
- Copy approach
- Reassuring and exact. It says plainly who it suits and when it may not.
Accessibility in this concept
- Examples are chosen from a labelled list
- Differences are described in text, not only highlighted
- Tables have proper headers
Accessibility review
Not yet reviewed. This is a concept direction: accessibility checks happen when it is built.
Our target is WCAG 2.2 AA. We do not describe a concept as meeting it until automated, keyboard and screen reader reviews are all complete.
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