Doctors Paycheck | 2002 Uplift Guide

2024 Uplift Guide for 2002 Pay Scales

Resident doctors in England will soon be receiving a pay uplift, backdated to April 2023.

For doctors paid according to the 2002 pay scales, calculating backpayment values is significantly simpler than for those on 2016 pay scales. It does, however, still have its complexities. After seeing numerous queries, we created this user guide to enable you to determine your back pay, to within a few pennies.

Note: Each of these steps must be completed for every individual job you have had since April 2023.

Who Is This Guide For?

Resident doctors in England who are:

Paid according to the 2002 pay scales, and
Wish to determine the backpay sum expected from each individual job worked since April 23.

2024 Uplift Guide for 2016 Pay Scales

This guide is for resident doctors employed on the 2002 Terms & Conditions. If you are instead employed on the 2016 Terms & Conditions, we also provide an easy-to-use calculator to calculating your 2024 uplift and back payment.

For each job you wish to calculate the backpay for, you need:

Your total annual salary for that role (excluding any London Weighting)
To know whether this salary was inclusive of any banding supplement (eg 1B, 1A)
Your less than full time (LTFT) percentage, if applicable
A calculator (probably…)

Note: Jobs which both started before 1st April 2024 and ended on or after 1st April 2024 will have two separate uplifts applied. It is simpler to split the job into two parts and calculate each uplift separately.

Part 1: Start date until March 31st 2024
Part 2: April 1st 2024 until end date, or October 31st

Preliminary Steps

Step A:

Resident doctors already received a pay uplift for the 2023-2024 year, the April 2023 6% + £1,250 pay uplift which came into effect in September 2023 (for the purposes of this guide, we will refer to this uplift as the September 2023 uplift). For any jobs between April 2023 and September 2023, you will have already received a back payment for this uplift.

In order to correctly use this guide, you must first determine whether the salary you intend to uplift is inclusive of that backpay value (ie, the salary you received after the uplift came into effect), or exclusive of that value (ie the salary you received prior to the uplift coming into effect).

If your salary is inclusive of this uplift, please proceed to Step 1.

If your salary is not inclusive of this uplift, or you are uncertain, please complete Step B.

Step B:

Take your Total Annual Salary (inclusive of banding and any pro rata multipliers) and divide by your LTFT % (eg ÷0.8 for 80%, ÷0.6 for 60%) and Banding Uplift (eg 1.2 for 1C, 1.4 for 1B, 1.5 for 1A).

Compare this to the values in the "Pre Uplift" and "Current" rows in Table 1 below. Identify the closest matching value and note both the Nodal Point and the row it is in:

Nodal Point
		Min	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
MN37 Pay Scale	Pre Uplift	£33,790	£35,858	£38,746	£40,492	£42,598	£44,705	£46,812	£48,918	£51,025	£53,132
MN37 Pay Scale	Current	£37,068	£39,260	£42,321	£44,171	£46,404	£48,637	£50,871	£53,103	£55,336	£57,570
Uplift Factor 0	April 23-24 (1)	1.09701	1.09487	1.09227	1.09086	1.08935	1.08795	1.08671	1.08555	1.08449	1.08353

Table 1 - September 2023 uplift nodal points

If the value closely matches a cell in the "Current" row, this is inclusive of the September 2023 uplift. Note your Nodal Point and proceed to Step 2.

If the value closely matches a cell in the "Pre Uplift" row, this is exclusive of the September 2023 uplift. Please complete Step C.

Note: You no longer need the value you just calculated. You only need to know whether your Total Annual Salary is inclusive or exclusive of the September 2023 uplift, and your Nodal Point.

Step C:

To transform your Total Annual Salary to include the September 2023 uplift, multiply it by the corresponding Uplift Factor 0 which can be found in the same column of Table 1 that you identified in Step B, and note your Nodal Point. Now proceed to Step 2, using this new value as your 'New' Total Annual Salary for this job.

Uplift Steps

Step 1: Identify Your Current Nodal Point

Identify your full-time equivalent annual salary, which you will find in the "Pre Uplift" row, and note which Nodal Point it relates to. If you don’t know this, the example at the end provides guidance on this.

Nodal Point
		Min	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
MN37 Pay Scale	Pre Uplift	£37,068	£39,260	£42,321	£44,171	£46,404	£48,637	£50,871	£53,103	£55,336	£57,570
	April 23-24	£38,443	£40,716	£43,891	£45,810	£48,125	£50,442	£52,758	£55,073	£57,389	£59,706
	April 24-25	£41,750	£44,159	£47,524	£49,559	£52,013	£54,468	£56,923	£59,377	£61,833	£64,288
Uplift Factor 1	April 23 Value	0.03709	0.03709	0.03710	0.03711	0.03709	0.03711	0.03709	0.03710	0.03710	0.03710
Uplift Factor 2	April 24 Value	0.12631	0.12478	0.12294	0.12198	0.12087	0.11989	0.11897	0.11815	0.11741	0.11669

Table 2 - April 23/24 uplift nodal points and factors

Note: Most doctors will be on the MN37 pay scale listed below (or the related LTFT MT59 scale), and can use this table directly. If you are on a different pay scale, you can pick a Nodal Point which matches most closely your Full-Time equivalent salary and use this. This will give you a very close indication of your back pay value, but will not be quite as accurate.

Step 2: Identify Your Uplift Factors

Using Table 2, within the same column as your identified Nodal Point, you will find the April 23 and April 24 Uplift Factors. Note these.

Step 3: Determine Your Total Annual Uplift

To determine your total annual salary uplift (inclusive of banding and any pro rata multipliers) multiply the annual salary for the job you are calculating by the appropriate Uplift Factor.

Factor 1 for jobs ending before April 2024
Factor 2 for jobs starting from April 2024

Note: Do not multiply by both factors. Factor 2 is already inclusive of Factor 1.

Step 4: Determine Your Length of Employment

Calculate, in months, how long you were in each post. For partial months (starting or ending a job), the proportion is calculated as:

(Days employed that month) ÷ (Days in the Month).

Do not include:

Any time before 1st April 2023 (Before the uplift comes into effect)
Any time after 31st October 2024 (Pay from November onwards will be included in your monthly salary

Step 5: Determine The Exact Uplift For The Job

Multiply your Total Annual Uplift by your Length of Employment (in months) divided by 12.

Total Annual Uplift × (Length Of Employment ÷ 12)

This will give you the exact value you should expect to receive from each employer.

Worked Example 1

John worked a job from 6th February 2023 until 6th August 2023.

He worked 80% LTFT with 1B banding and has a total annual salary of £50,069.60.

He wishes to determine the back pay expected from this job.

Example Step A:

John does not know whether his salary is inclusive of the September 2023 uplift or not, therefore he proceeds to Step B.

Example Step B:

John divides his current salary by his LTFT % and Banding Uplift.

£50,069.60 ÷ 1.4 ÷ 0.8 = £44,705.00

He compares this to the values in Table 1, and notes that it matches (or is within a new pence of) Nodal Point 5, Pre Uplift row. As this is in the Pre Uplift row, he now knows it is exclusive of the September 2023 uplift, and proceeds to Step C.

Example Step C:

John multiplies his current salary by Uplift Factor zero, taken from the Nodal Point 5 column in Table 1.

£50,069.60 × 1.08795 = £54,473.22

This is his new Total Annual Salary value for this role following the September 2023 Uplift, and he proceeds to Step 2.

Example Step 1: Identify Your Current Nodal Point

John can skip this step, as he knows his Nodal Point from step B.

Example Step 2: Identify Your Uplift Factors

Using Table 2, John looks at Nodal Point 5 and determines that his Uplift Factors are:

Uplift Factor 1 (April 23): 0.03711
Uplift Factor 2 (April 24): 0.11989

Note: These are listed to so many decimal places because it minimises the potential variation within a reasonable error (a few pennies). Any fewer and it would result in a potential error of several pounds.

Example Step 3: Determine Your Total Annual Uplift

John is calculating the back pay for a job which ended before April 2024, therefore he multiplies his current salary by Uplift Factor 1. If this job started before April 2024, but ended after April 2024, he would need to split this job into two parts and calculate each part separately using each corresponding uplift factor.

£54,473.22 × 0.03711 = £2,021.50

Example Step 4: Determine Your Length of Employment

John determines that, from 1st April 2023, he worked 4 full months (April - July) and 1 partial month (1st August until 6th: 6 days), which is 6/31 of a month. He has therefore worked 4 ⁶⁄₃₁ months.

Example Step 5: Determine The Exact Uplift For The Job

John multiplies his Total Annual Uplift by his length of employment. This is the uplift John should expect to receive from this job.

£2,021.51 × 4 ⁶⁄₃₁ ÷ 12 = £706.44

Note: Due to some rounding which occurs when new pay scales are created, and to avoid having to list 100 different Uplift Factors, this value will be out by a few pennies. For example, in this case, John's "true" uplift will be £706.47; £0.03 more.

Worked Example 2

John now wants to work out his back pay from his current job, which he will work until after October 31st.

John started this job on August 5th, and is still working it now.

He works 80% LTFT with 1A banding and has a total annual salary of £61,045.50.

He wishes to determine the back pay expected from this job.

Example Step A:

John knows that this salary is inclusive of the September 2023 uplift, therefore he proceeds to Step 1.

Example Step 1: Identify Your Current Nodal Point

John knows his annual salary, that he works 80% LTFT and 1A banding, which is a 50% uplift. He can determine his Nodal Point (if he doesn’t already know it) by dividing by both his Banding (1.5) and his LTFT proportion (0.8).

£61,045.50 ÷ 1.5 ÷ 0.8 = £50,871.25

He compares this to the "Pre Uplift" row in Table 2, and determines that it is akin to Nodal Point 6.

Note: The slight difference of £0.25 is due to rounding which occurs for the specific LTFT values. To truly calculate this to the penny, we would need to provide 100 separate Uplift Factors. We felt that was a little bit ridiculous to include.

Example Step 2: Identify Your Uplift Factors

Using Table 2, John looks at Nodal Point 6 and determines that his Uplift Factors are:

Uplift Factor 1 (April 23): 0.03709
Uplift Factor 2 (April 24): 0.11897

Example Step 3: Determine Your Total Annual Uplift

John is calculating the back pay for a job which started after 1st April 1st, therefore he multiplies his current salary by Uplift Factor 2. If this job started before April 2024, but ended after April 2024, he would need to split this job into two parts and calculate each part separately using each corresponding uplift factor.

£61,045.50 × 0.11897 = £7,262.58

Example Step 4: Determine Your Length of Employment

John determines that from 5th August 2024 until 31st October, he will work 2 full months (September and October) and 1 partial month (5th August until 31st: 27 days), which is 27/31 of a month. He will therefore have worked 2 ²⁷⁄₃₁ months.

Example Step 5: Determine The Exact Uplift For The Job

John multiplies his Total Annual Uplift by his length of employment. This is the uplift John should expect to receive from this job.

£7,262.58 × 2 ²⁷⁄₃₁ ÷ 12 = £1,737.55

FAQs

Can I use the Doctors Paycheck Uplift Calculator to work out my backpay on the 2002 pay values?

Maybe. Our Uplift Calculator is programmed specifically for resident doctors paid according to the 2016 pay scales. However, you can use it to provide a rough estimate in some situations. It can only be used for 2002 pay scale values for salaries which are inclusive of the September 2023 uplift. It will also be far less accurate than using our manual calculation guide.

For example, John’s job in Example 2 will be calculated as providing a back payment of £1,714.72 using the Uplift Calculator, which is an undervaluation of £22.57.

If you still wish to use it, follow these steps:

Ensure your salary is inclusive of the September 2023 uplift by using steps A, B & C (as required)
Enter the start and finish dates of the job (for any jobs starting before 1st April 2023 select 01 Apr 2023)
Answer "YES" to the question "Do these pay values account for the April 2023 6% + £1,250 pay uplift?" (if your salary is exclusive of this uplift, you cannot just answer NO as this will give you incorrect uplift values)
Select the grade "CT3 & ST3-5" (select this regardless of the grade you actually worked as it will give you the closest uplift factor)
Enter your Total Annual Salary into the "Basic Pay" entry. Include your basic pay and any banding pay in this value. Do not include any London Weighting
Click "Calculate Uplift"

Why are there so many uplifts?

There have been 3 uplifts applied since April 2023 which affect resident doctors in England. This can unfortunately get somewhat confusing.

In September 2023 doctors received a pay uplift, backdated to April 2023. This uplifted basic pay by 6% + £1,250. This has already been accounted for by employers, and every eligible doctor should have already received their back payment for this uplift

However, because it came into effect in September, many salaries for jobs starting before this will be quoted as their pre-uplift value. This may cause confusion when using this pay guide, so please pay close attention.
In November 2024, doctors will receive a pay uplift, backdated to April 2023. This is an additional uplift (on top of the one outlined above), of between 3.71% and 5.05% on basic pay, depending on grade. This has not yet been accounted for by employers, and every eligible doctor will receive back payment for this uplift in the coming months (expected in November).
In November 2024, doctors will also receive a pay uplift, backdated to April 2024. This is an additional uplift (on top of the two outlined above), of 6% + £1,000 on basic pay. This has not yet been accounted for by employers, and every eligible doctor will receive back payment for this uplift in the coming months (expected in November).

Please note that because all of these pay uplifts affect the same time period, they compound on top of each other, adding a further layer of complexity.