Salary, pension and holidays

Salary

Goldsmiths offers an incremental salary scheme with annual cost of living increase reviews.

We use a job evaluation scheme to ensure equal pay for work of equal value across all staff, and review and publish our gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap annually.

Payday falls on the 24^th of each month, but if the 24^th falls on a day when the university is closed or it's a bank holiday weekend, it will be the last working day before that. If you are paid via submission of pay claims, hours can only be included on the payment claim up to the payroll deadline. Therefore, you will need to submit any hours worked after the deadline on a new payment claim for the following month's payroll. 

Pension

When you start at Goldsmiths, you'll be automatically enrolled into a qualifying pension scheme – either the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) or the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA), depending on your grade.

• Grades 1-5: London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA)
• Grades 6 and above: Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)

Annual leave

Goldsmiths offers a generous annual leave entitlement on top of College closure dates (public holidays in England and two extra days at Easter, four at Christmas).

Grades 1-5

If your length of service is less than five years, you're entitled to 22 days of annual leave.

If your length of service is five years or more, you're entitled to 27 days days of annual leave.

Grades 6 and above

On appointment, you're entitled to 28 days of annual leave.

Civic Days

All staff are entitled to request three days of leave each year to volunteer. This can be used to support local causes – an initiative we call Civic Days – or any organisations that are of personal interest. By volunteering within the London Borough of Lewisham, staff will take an active role in shaping our Civic Strategy and make a real difference in our local community. 

Flexible working

At Goldsmiths we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. We are open to considering request for flexible working patterns from job applicants and will do our best to accommodate these where possible.