COS salary

[pride88]

Hi All, The SOC codes are based on a 39 hours a week according to the introduction of appendix J.

I recently got issued a uCOS for a 37.5 hours a week. So, if i get a salary of 23000, does that mean i have to adjust the salary to the 39 hours a week level? Would that be the actual salary required and not 23k? Please advice.

I am currently awaiting my Tier 2 decision! Nerve wracking it is! Your advice will be much appreciated.

Regards,
Pride88

[CR001]

What is your SOC??

[pride88]

What is your SOC??

Thanks for for your reply. The code is 2112, biologist and biochemists. Minimum is around 21000 and experienced rate is around 28000. Your advice will be much appreciated.

[pride88]

Any advice on this situation will be highly helpful. Regards!

[pride88]

Anyone here can please help me with this question? It is really important for me. Regards!

[CR001]

It will be pro-rated but I am not able to do the calculation for you but your actual salary will be less as you are contracted to less hours. Are you under 26 if you are looking at new entrant rate?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration ... illed-work

The “experienced worker” rate will apply in all other cases.
(e) Where Appendix K requires a job holder to have a minimum level of experience, the “experienced worker” rate will always apply.
(f) The rates stated are per year and are based on the following weekly hours:

(i) Where the source is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, a 39-hour week;
(ii) Where the source is NHS Agenda for Change or the equivalent source for each of the devolved administrations, or the Royal Institute of British Architects, a 37.5-hour week;
(iii) Where the source is teachers’ national pay scales, on the definition of a full-time teacher as used when determining those pay scales;
(iv) where the source is the National Grid submission to the Migration Advisory Committee, a 37-hour week;
(v) In all other cases, a 40-hour week.

Rates will be pro-rated based on the number of working hours stated on the Certificate of Sponsorship. The exceptions are ‘Skilled chef as defined in the Shortage Occupation List in Appendix K’ and ‘Overhead linesworker at Linesman Erector 2 (LE2) level and above’, where the appropriate rates cannot be pro-rated down for shorter working hours as they form a key part of the shortage occupation criteria recommended by the Migration Advisory Committee.

[pride88]

For the SOC 2112, the source is the migration advisory committee as stated in the guidance material, so the working hours will 37 hours per week, is it not. In that case, I am fine I think.

Please let me know If i am wrong. The source of 2112 is not annual survey of hours and earnings.
2112 Biological scientists and biochemists Example job tasks:
• studies the physical and chemical form, structure, composition
• and function of living organisms;
• identifies and studies the chemical substances, including microbial infections, involved in physiological processes and the progress of disease;
• performs tests to study physiological and pathological characteristics within cells and other organisms;
• researches the effects of internal and external environmental
• factors on the life processes and other functions of living organisms;
• observes the structure of communities of organisms in the laboratory and in their natural environment;
• advises farmers, medical staff and others, on the nature of field crops, livestock and produce and on the treatment and prevention of disease;
• monitors the distribution, presence and behaviour of plants, animals and aquatic life, and performs other scientific tasks related to conservation not performed by jobholders in SOC codes beginning “214”.

Related job titles:
• Biomedical scientist
• Forensic scientist
• Horticulturist
• Microbiologist
• Pathologist

Salary rates: Biomedical scientists working in the health sector:
See Table 9

Other biomedical scientists:
New entrant: £21,600
Experienced worker: £28,000

[Source: Evidence from partners who responded to Migration Advisory Committee in 2011, uplifted based on national changes in earnings]

[pride88]

It will be pro-rated but I am not able to do the calculation for you but your actual salary will be less as you are contracted to less hours. Are you under 26 if you are looking at new entrant rate?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration ... illed-work

The “experienced worker” rate will apply in all other cases.
(e) Where Appendix K requires a job holder to have a minimum level of experience, the “experienced worker” rate will always apply.
(f) The rates stated are per year and are based on the following weekly hours:

(i) Where the source is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, a 39-hour week;
(ii) Where the source is NHS Agenda for Change or the equivalent source for each of the devolved administrations, or the Royal Institute of British Architects, a 37.5-hour week;
(iii) Where the source is teachers’ national pay scales, on the definition of a full-time teacher as used when determining those pay scales;
(iv) where the source is the National Grid submission to the Migration Advisory Committee, a 37-hour week;
(v) In all other cases, a 40-hour week.

Rates will be pro-rated based on the number of working hours stated on the Certificate of Sponsorship. The exceptions are ‘Skilled chef as defined in the Shortage Occupation List in Appendix K’ and ‘Overhead linesworker at Linesman Erector 2 (LE2) level and above’, where the appropriate rates cannot be pro-rated down for shorter working hours as they form a key part of the shortage occupation criteria recommended by the Migration Advisory Committee.

No, I am over 26, but switching from Tier 4 to Tier 2, So I am the new entrant by that method.

[pride88]

Hi CR001, Please can you advice or give your opinion? Regards pride88