Gross earnings : Free Benefits Check from Entitledto

The amount you enter for gross earnings should be your standard weekly earnings before tax and national insurance and ignoring any pension contributions you make. Do not take off deductions (i.e. do not enter your ‘net’ earnings) as we will calculate these separately.

If you have more than one job enter the total gross earnings you receive.

If your earnings vary and you are not sure what to enter you should seek further advice about how to calculate an ‘average’ earnings figure.

As an employee your earnings from employment include:

bonuses and commission (including tips)
Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay
employer’s sick pay and maternity pay
childminding expenses (e.g. childcare vouchers)
expenses to cover travel to and from work
other expenses which are not required to enable the client to carry out your job
money received instead of pay (for example paid by a liquidator)
money received in lieu of contractual notice or compensation paid for losing a job
holiday pay for holidays not taken (but not holiday pay owed more than four weeks after a client stopped work)
retainers
money paid under the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978
payments ordered by an industrial tribunal because the correct period of notice or redundancy has not been given
payments from employer’s redundancy funds because of liquidation
earnings from therapeutic work recommended by a doctor while receiving an incapacity benefit.

Earnings from employment don’t include:

payment in kind (where no money is involved)
expenses that are essential to carry out a job
income received from occupational pension schemes (these are counted as counted as ‘other income’ and taken on a separate page)
employer contributions to an individual’s pension.

If you are self-employed the rules are different. For more information go to earnings definition if you are self-employed.