I am hoping for a pay rise soon - need to take home around 1550 per month. What figure should I ask for to get this?

About 25-27k depending on your tax code

I put together a little Excel spreadsheet that calculates your tax etc - you key in your tax code, salary and the amount per month that you pay in NI and it works out your take home pay.

It is at http://www.bejowan.u-net.com/TaxCalc.xls if you are interested.

Quick disclaimer - if it eats your computer, spends all your money or runs off with your wife, then I can't be held responsible. As far as I know it is accurate and virus free though ;)

24700 if you have a standard tax code.

Blimey, I hardly get to deal with my own pay, never mind anyone elses:rolleyes:

Bob

Thanks, do you think I would be better off with a car allowance?

Depends on the catches. If you need a car you could get mileage only. This is usually between 32p and 72p a mile depending on your company. This should cover the vast majority of the cost of running the car for work, and is non taxible. If you get a cash sum allowance, this will be taxible (you will lose approx 25%), and you will probably only get 9p a mile or there abouts for petrol. You need to work out how many miles you do and which one option would give you most money depending on those miles

Check out http://listen.to/taxman it's quite handy.

Darren