Move to monthly pay

East Dunbartonshire Council is moving to one monthly payroll in April 2025.

A pilot with over 100 employees is currently underway with progress and feedback from this helping to shape the wider implementation.

The Council has a number of weekly, four-weekly and monthly payrolls which is inefficient and challenging in terms of applying the correct additions, deductions and uplifts to these across the year.

Moving to a monthly payroll delivers significant benefits, including improved efficiency, quicker processing times and an improved service to employees.

Moving from our current four-weekly payroll to a monthly payroll will mean that you will receive your annual salary in 12 payments a year on the same day each month, rather than thirteen payments a year every four weeks when the day in the month you are paid changes.

With our new monthly payroll, you will be paid on the 15th of every month and your monthly pay will include your pay from the first to the end of that month.

As mentioned in the letter you should now have received, as part of the transition arrangements, those who are currently on a four-weekly Tuesday payrun will be provided with a bounce payment, equivalent to five days pay, as part of their final four-weekly pay on 1 April 2025.

This is because that pay will only include 23 days pay (from 9 to 31 March 2025) with payment for 1 to 5 April 2025 being included in the first full monthly pay which will be paid two weeks later, on 15 April 2025.

The bounce payment will be applied automatically to all those on the four-weekly Tuesday payrun.

However, if you feel you can manage to bridge the difference without a bounce payment, you can choose to opt out.

Any salary deductions such as pension contributions, tax and National Insurance will remain the same over the year. The only difference is that these will be divided between your new number of pay periods (12) compared to your current amount.

You will still pay the same total annual contributions; they will simply be divided between your new number of pay periods (changing from 13 to 12).

FAQ’s have been published so please have a read over these on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page. If you still have further questions, please send them directly to epqueries@eastdunbarton.gov.uk

A series of sessions – both online and in person – were delievered to allow employees to find out more about the change and ask any questions they may have.

At these drop-in sessions, we also provided information in relation to Financial planning and wellbeing. Further information is available on the financial wellbeing page.