Making contributions

Our guidance will help you correctly work out and process your employer and employee contributions, based on the way your pension scheme is set up – ensuring you fulfil your employer duties.

What are pensionable earnings?

Discover more about pensionable earnings, the elements of pay used to calculate pension contributions, and the different ways this can be defined.

Learn more about pensionable earnings

Making contributions using tax relief at source

Find guidelines on how to accurately calculate employee contributions, taking into account 20% tax relief applied by Royal London.

Explore tax relief at source

Making contributions using salary exchange

Learn how employees can exchange part of their salary, bonus, or redundancy package for increased workplace pension contributions

Read about using salary exchange

Making contributions on the dashboard

Each month, you’ll need to make pension contributions for your employees using the auto-enrolment dashboard.

Make contributions

Contribution FAQs

If you're looking for more information on making contributions, our FAQ's might have the answer you're looking for.

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Making single contributions for your employees

Find out what you need do to make one off contributions for your employees.

Learn about single contributions

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Your automatic enrolment duties

Understand your legal duties when it comes to setting up and managing your workplace pension scheme, with our range of guidance materials.

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Manage your scheme online

Resources to help you complete key tasks within your online service and auto-enrolment dashboard - ensuring you fulfil your employer duties and maintain accurate records.

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