Curious payrise format

[randlemarcus]

Just had my payrise letter. It's come in the form of a one-off single payment that seems to cover the next year, i.e. through to Q3 2018. Aside from the obvious not impacting pensionable pay, and setting 2018 payrise against a baseline of 2016 salary, why would the delightful company have done this? Are there huge tax advantages?

[randlemarcus]

Nope, not a penny. And the marginal tax rate means I get maybe 40% of that in my pocket. Not happy, just trying to figure out whether this is because they get massive Corp Tax advantages, or whether this is just there to encourage UK workers to look elsewhere.

[randlemarcus]

Individual , and no build up. Only for senior folks as well, which makes it worse

[randlemarcus]

Mr Overheads said:

You could always ask your FD. He/She will probably appreciate someone actively taking an interest in why something is done a certain way.

Possibly. Though my questioning it with my bosses boss seems to have made him quite uncomfortable

Was more interested in whether this bestowed tax advantages on the business that outweigh any bad feeling.