About Take-Home Lab

Take-Home Lab is an independent informational site from Rodway Labs, UK. It publishes a take-home pay calculator and short guides so you can see how income tax, National Insurance, student loan and pension contributions change a headline salary.

We built the tools. We are not an authorised tax adviser, accountant, payroll bureau or FCA-authorised firm. Figures on this site are illustrations with the assumptions written next to them.

What we will and will not do

• We will show the method under each result and date-stamp the rates.
• We will cite HMRC, GOV.UK and Revenue Scotland pages when we state a band or threshold.
• We will not tell you which job to take, how much to put in a pension, or that a figure is “your tax bill”.
• We will not add loan, mortgage or insurance application funnels.

Rates in use

Pages on this site use the 2026/27 tax year (6 April 2026 to 5 April 2027) unless a page says otherwise. Last checked September 2026 against HMRC employer rates and the Scottish Government bands for 2026 to 2027.

Sister labs

Rodway Labs also publishes Remortgage Lab and LoanCalc Lab. Each lab stays on its own subject. This site does not calculate mortgages or personal loans.

Publisher: Rodway Labs · Contact: see the contact page · No personal name or biography is published here on purpose.