About Police Take-Home Pay
Police Take-Home Pay (policetakehome.co.uk) is a free, independent take-home pay calculator for UK police officers. It turns a gross salary into an itemised breakdown of income tax, National Insurance, pension contributions and student loan repayments, so you can see what actually reaches your bank account each month.
We built it because most salary calculators are generic: they ask for an annual figure and ignore the pay framework you are actually on. This site models the real structure — the pay scales set by the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB), the allowances that attach to it, the pension scheme and the contractual working week — rather than treating your salary as an arbitrary number.
It is part of a network of UK take-home pay calculators that also covers NHS staff, doctors, firefighters, teachers, prison staff, civil servants and everyone else.
Last updated: 26 September 2026
Who runs this site
The site is operated by Dabble Solutions Ltd, a UK-registered company (company number 17016788), trading as Take Home Network. It is run by an independent UK-based software developer — not by a union, an employer, a government body or a financial services firm. Nobody pays us to present a particular figure.
We are not financial advisers, accountants or tax agents. We are engineers who think the UK pay and tax system should be legible to the people living under it. Nothing on this site is financial advice, and every figure is an estimate — your payslip and your payroll department are always the authority on your actual pay.
The site is free to use and funded by advertising and occasional sponsorship. We do not collect, store or transmit any salary information you enter: the calculator runs entirely in your browser, and the figures you type never leave your device.
What this calculator models
- Every federated rank from Constable to Chief Inspector, the superintending ranks, and chief officer ranks from Assistant Chief Constable to Commissioner.
- The standard working week is 40 hours under Police Regulations 2003. Hourly rates are annual pay ÷ (40 × 52.143).
- London Weighting (£3,260) and London Allowance (£6,819) for Metropolitan and City of London officers — a combined uplift of £10,079.
- South East Allowance at £3,105 (upper tier) or £2,070 (lower tier), and the Dog Handlers’ Allowance at £3,260.
- Pension contributions under the PPS 2015 CARE tiers (12.44% / 13.44% / 13.78%), overtime at plain time and enhanced rates, and acting-up pay.
- British Transport Police officers are covered separately, including the BTP Force Superannuation Fund and the force’s 4-weekly pay cycle.
The confirmed 3.5% award was applied to federated and superintending ranks from 1 September 2026. Chief officer ranks are outside that award and remain on their existing rates. Police Scotland, PSNI and MoD Police run separate awards on separate cadences and are shown with their own effective dates.
Where the figures come from
Pay scales are taken from the published source for UK police officers — the PRRB, with rates given effect by Home Office determination — and typed in by hand against the original document rather than scraped. Federated and superintending pay scales take effect on 1 September each year; chief officer pay is set separately through the PRRB chief officer process.
Tax, National Insurance and student loan thresholds come from HMRC and follow the April tax year, which means they move on a different cadence from the pay award. When the two are out of step, the calculator states which tax year and which pay year it is using, because a figure that silently mixes the two is worse than no figure.
The full source list, the order the calculation runs in and the known limitations are set out on the methodology page.
Corrections
If a figure looks wrong, please tell us. Corrections from people who actually receive these payslips are the most valuable feedback we get, and several have been fixed within a day of being reported. Email contact@policetakehome.co.uk or use the contact page — a screenshot of the relevant payslip line, with personal details removed, makes a report much quicker to act on.