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What is the take-home pay for a part-time cleaner on the National Living Wage in the UK?

A cleaner aged 21+ on the National Living Wage of £12.71 an hour working 30 hours a week earns £381.30 a week, or £19,827.60 a year, for 2026/27. After £1,451.52 Income Tax and £580.61 National Insurance, take-home pay is £17,795.47 a year, around £1,482.96 a month.

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The National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 an hour from April 2026. A cleaner working 30 hours a week at this rate earns £381.30 a week, which over a 52-week year comes to £19,827.60. The tax-free Personal Allowance of £12,570 covers most of this, leaving £7,257.60 taxable at the 20% basic rate, giving £1,451.52 Income Tax for the year. National Insurance is 8% of the same £7,257.60 above the £12,570 Primary Threshold, giving £580.61. Total deductions of £2,032.13 leave take-home pay of £17,795.47 a year, around £1,482.96 a month, or roughly £342.22 a week. Many part-time cleaners work fewer hours, in which case a larger proportion (or all) of their earnings falls within the tax-free Personal Allowance and no Income Tax is due at all -- someone working 16 hours a week at £12.71 an hour would earn £10,566.32 a year, entirely below the £12,570 Personal Allowance, meaning no Income Tax and no National Insurance would be due. Cleaners working for multiple clients as self-employed sole traders, rather than as an employee, are instead taxed through Self Assessment on their total profits from all clients combined, which can push them over the Personal Allowance more easily if they work for several employers or clients across the week.