Payroll That Speaks Education
Split contracts across term dates. Teachers' Pension Scheme auto-deductions. Mid-year scale-point jumps. Ledger handles the peculiar math of schools so your Monday morning numbers just balance.
- Eliminates term-date calculation errors
- TPS submissions filed automatically
- Trusted by 340+ schools across England
Split contracts calculated without the spreadsheet
Every school has staff who don't fit a single row. Term-time-only LSAs, 0.6 FTE teachers, mid-year scale-point jumps. Ledger's engine was built for this — it reads your contract terms and splits the maths correctly, every month.
Twenty payrolls. One dashboard.
MAT CFOs no longer reconcile school-by-school in a spreadsheet the morning before the board meeting. Ledger consolidates every school's payroll into a single live view — drill down by school, cost centre, or funding stream in seconds.
“Before Ledger, our CFO was still reconciling the trust payroll at 7am on BACS day. Now it's done the evening before.”
— Finance Director, 8-school MAT, West Midlands
TPS submissions filed while you sleep
The Teachers' Pension Scheme requires monthly employer and employee contribution data filed to MyPension Online. Most SBMs do this manually. Ledger connects directly and files automatically the moment payroll is approved — no portal login, no CSV upload, no 7am panic.
Run your first payroll free
Set up in under 10 minutes. Import your staff list, connect your school calendar, and see every calculation before you commit.
Forecast the full year before September
Every payroll run updates a live budget forecast. See where you'll land in June before the school year starts — staffing changes, TPS rate adjustments, and increment dates all factored in. No separate spreadsheet required.
From SBMs who've had the quiet exhale
When the numbers just balance without you forcing them to.
“I used to spend the last Friday of every month manually reconciling three funding streams. Ledger does it automatically — I now use that time to actually talk to headteachers.”
“Consolidating 14 schools' payrolls used to take my team three days. With Ledger it's a 20-minute sign-off. The TPS auto-filing alone saved us 40 hours a year.”
“We're an independent school with a lot of term-time-only staff. Every other provider told us to just use a workaround. Ledger actually solved it.”
Book a Trust Demo
If you're a CFO or operations lead managing payroll across multiple schools, we'll walk you through the consolidation dashboard, funding stream tracking, and trust-wide TPS reporting in a 45-minute session.
Ready to see your Monday morning made easier?
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