Working through an umbrella company
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How you'll be paid, what you'll be paid, and how to check your pay when you're employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How you'll be paid, what you'll be paid, and how to check your pay when you're employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- How an umbrella company works
- What happens after you contact a new recruitment agency
- The client needs temporary workers
- The recruitment agency searches for workers
- You become an umbrella company employee
- The recruitment agency agrees terms with the umbrella company
- The recruitment agency discusses the role with you
- Your employment rights
- Holiday entitlement
- How you get paid
- Understanding how your gross pay is calculated
- How an umbrella company works out your gross pay from the assignment rate
- Checking your payslip
- Work out pay from an umbrella company
- If your pay is not what you expected
- If you've been promised higher pay by your umbrella company
Source and licence
HM Revenue & Customs
AttributionHM Revenue & Customs, ‘Working through an umbrella company’ (updated 17 September 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026