However I have minimum contracted hours and an hourly wage of £13.46, which gives me a rough annual salary of £24,000. My payslips prove this, with the smallest amount I've ever earned in a week still giving £23,000 when multiplied to give an annual amount.
Is it sufficient for them to confirm minimum contracted hours and hourly wage?
Okay, if you are paid hourly, then you are a 'non-salaried' employee, not a 'salaried' employee. This means that your income is calculated differently and you will not have an annual salary.
The way your income will be calculated is:
(Total of all the 6 months of payslips added together / 6) = Average monthly income
Average monthly income x 12 = Average annual income
The Average annual income calculated as above is the figure they will use to determine if you meet the requirements. It is also the figure you need to put in Appendix 2 for your annual income.
It is very important that your employer letter DOES NOT state a fixed annual salary.
Instead, it MUST state:
- that the employment is NON-salaried
- your hourly wage
- the number of hours you are contracted for
We had someone refused a few months ago, because their employer letter stated they were salaried instead of non-salaried. Because of this, UKVI used the salaried income calculation instead of the non-salaried, where they take the lowest payslip in the 6 months and multiply by 12 to get the annual salary.
Unfortunately, even though they met the income requirement with non-salaried payslips, their lowest payslip was £1,275, so when the salaried calculation was used, they didn't meet the requirement and the visa was refused.