Payment Plus calculator
Payment Plus is paid at £23 an hour for extra hours from April 2026. Enter your hours to see what you actually keep.
Your prison job
Your 20% unsocial hours allowance is included automatically. It is paid every month on top of base pay, whatever shifts you work.
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Deductions and tax
Pension rate: you are £1,271 below £36,199. Go over it and your whole pensionable pay is charged at 5.45% instead of 4.6%.
Unsocial hours and pensionable committed hours (up to 39) count for your pension. Payment Plus, on-call and hours above 39 do not.
Your pay points in Band 3
Take-home a month at each point, with everything you entered above.
| Point | Base pay | Take-home a month |
|---|---|---|
| Pay point 1 | £29,107 | £2,613.09 |
| Pay point 2 | £30,125 | £2,682.64 |
| Pay point 3 | £30,648 | £2,697.53 |
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How Payment Plus works
Payment Plus is the HMPPS rate for extra hours worked on top of your contract. It rose by £1 to £23 an hour from 1 April 2026. It is taxed and has National Insurance taken off like normal pay, but it is not pensionable.
A new Band 3 officer working 20 hours of Payment Plus a month earns £460 extra before tax, and keeps about £331 of it, or £16.56 an hour.
If Payment Plus takes your total income over £50,270, the part above is taxed at 40%, so you keep less of each extra hour.
Common questions
How much is Payment Plus per hour?
£23 an hour from 1 April 2026.
Is Payment Plus pensionable?
No. It is taxed and has National Insurance taken off, but it does not count for your alpha pension.