Change Log

Figures are updated within 24 hours of a pay award being confirmed by the relevant government or NHS body. Each update is timestamped here so the commitment can be checked rather than taken on trust.

• 2026-09-17

  England Pay Scales for 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 Added as Archive Pages and CSV Downloads.

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  Transcribed from the NHS Employers pay posters for 2018/19 and 2019/20, the archived 2020/21 annual pay scales table, and the handbook's Annex 2 table from 29 July 2021. Every 2018/19 to 2020/21 value was checked against the handbook's Annex 3 table, which prints the three years side by side (78 of 79 rows are printed there; the last matches the 2021 table), and every 2021/22 value was checked as a 3% uplift on the 1 April 2021 table. These years are England only and sit outside the calculator, because pay points were set by years of experience during the 2018 deal's transition.

  Source: NHS Employers historical pay library; NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook, Annex 3 (from 1 April 2018) and Annex 2 (from 1 April and 29 July 2021)

• 2026-09-17

  NHS Pay Dates for 2026/27 Published, Using Only Calendars and Rules Employers Have Published Themselves.

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  Includes the full BSO Payroll Shared Services calendar for HSC Northern Ireland, the MWL Lead Employer's dates for England, and dates calculated from the published pay day rules of Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Lothian and NHS Grampian. December dates calculated from a rule are flagged, not stated. No Welsh dates are shown because no calendar was found published openly.

  Source: BSO Payroll Shared Services payroll calendar 2026/27; MWL Lead Employer pay dates 2026/27; Oxford University Hospitals 'Getting paid'; NHS Education for Scotland Turas Hub pay dates; GOV.UK bank holidays

• 2026-09-17

  HSC Pay Scales Page for Northern Ireland: Rates in Payment, Provisional 2026/27 Rates and the Back Pay Building Up.

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  Checked on 16 September 2026 that no Agenda for Change pay circular for 2026/27 appears in the Department of Health's 2026 workforce policy guidance, so Northern Ireland 2026/27 remains provisional everywhere on the site.

  Source: Department of Health NI workforce policy guidance 2026; BSO Payroll Shared Services AfC February 2026 pay award; HSC (AfC) (6) 2024

• 2026-09-17

  Pay Step Periods Added for All Four Nations, Correcting the Statement That They Are Not Published.

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  See the corrections log entry of 17 September 2026.

  Source: NHS Employers pay scales 2026/27; AfC(W) 02/2026; HSC (AfC) (6) 2024; NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook, Section 1 (Scotland) Table 1a and Annex 23

• 2026-08-08

  Scotland and Northern Ireland Pension Tiers Replaced with the Published Tables, and Every Source Now Linked.

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  The member contribution tiers for the NHS Pension Scheme (Scotland) and the HSC Pension Scheme (Northern Ireland) were read from the publishers' own websites and stored, replacing figures that were wrong in several years. See the corrections log for what was wrong and who it affected. Ten parameters that previously named a source document without linking to it now carry a URL and a retrieval date, which closes the last sourcing gap on the site. Scotland 2026-27 is no longer marked as awaiting a circular: SPPA circular 2026/03 was published on 10 March 2026.

  Source: SPPA member contributions page and NHS Circular 2026/03; HSC Pension Service contribution rates pages

• 2026-08-08

  Corrected the High Cost Area Supplement Floors and Ceilings for 2022-23 through 2025-26.

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  The rules file held floor and ceiling values that did not match the HCAS tables published alongside each year's pay scales. The error ran from £150 to £460 depending on zone and year, and affected any England result with a London supplement in those four years. 2026-27 was unaffected. The values were regenerated by subtraction from the published tables, and the build now derives them the same way on every run and fails if the rule cannot reproduce every published figure.

  Source: NHS Employers pay scale pages, 2022/23 to 2025/26, HCAS tables

• 2026-08-08

  Calculator Rebuilt around a Traced Thirteen-Stage Calculation.

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  The calculation now records every stage as it runs, and the 'how this was worked out' panel is generated from that record. There is no separately written explanation to fall out of step with the arithmetic. The stage order follows UK payroll: high cost area supplement capped on whole-time pay before pro-rating, pension tier read off actual annualised pensionable pay, pension reducing the income tax base but not the National Insurance base, and student loans charged on the same base as National Insurance.

  Source: NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook; HMRC guidance; NHSBSA contribution tier guidance

• 2026-08-08

  Initial Data Set Published: Five Pay Years, Four Nations.

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  Agenda for Change pay points for 2022-23 to 2026-27 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Pension member contribution tiers for the NHS Pension Scheme (England and Wales), the NHS Pension Scheme (Scotland) and the HSC Pension Scheme (Northern Ireland). Income tax rates for both the rest-of-UK and Scottish structures, National Insurance thresholds and rates including the mid-year changes in 2022-23 and 2023-24, student loan thresholds for plans 1, 2, 4, 5 and postgraduate, England high cost area supplements, and Section 2 unsocial hours enhancement rates.

  Source: See /sources for the document behind every parameter