If you’re a part time worker, we use your actual part time pay to decide which contribution band you fall into, and then you pay that percentage of your actual part time pay.
The pension you receive will normally be based on 1/49th of your pay, so this simply means we divide your pay by 49 and then this amount is added into your pension account (but if you’re in the 50:50 Section, your pension will instead be based on 1/98th of your pay). You’ll continue to build your pension in this way each year based on your pay for that year, and the pension you build up is revalued in line with inflation. You can find more information here
If you were a member before 1 April 2014, who worked part time then we’d have worked out your benefits differently. We would have used a pro rata amount of service and your equivalent full time pay, so if for example you worked half the time, we’ll have given you half the service but used your full time pay in the calculation.