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The building blocks: payslips, tax, bank accounts and where your money actually goes.
Student loan repayments come straight off your payslip, before you even see the money — but how much you pay, and when, depends entirely on which repayment plan you're on.
Your tax code looks like a random string of numbers and letters, but it's telling HMRC exactly how much of your pay to leave untouched. Here's how to read it.
Gross pay, tax codes, National Insurance and pension deductions — what every line on a UK payslip actually means, in plain English.