18600 salary calculation

[iahsan]

For the 18600 minimum salary requirement, the document "Appendix_FM_1_7_Financial_Requirement_August_2015.pdf" on page 30, section 5.5.7 reads,

"5.5.7. Overtime, commission-based pay and bonuses (which can include tips and gratuities
paid via a tronc scheme registered with HMRC) will be counted as income from
employment where they have been received in the 6 or 12 months prior to the date of
application as applicable. Sometimes the person will receive the same amount of
income from overtime each month; sometimes overtime payments will vary, with
different amounts (if any) each month. All overtime in salaried employment will be
calculated based on the approach to income from non-salaried employment. This will be
an annualised 6-month average for the overtime which will be added to the level of the
gross annual salary."

On line three it says '6 or 12 months' and in the last line it says '6 month annualised average', my question is that,

1. Will an annual bonus paid in the last 12 months (not in last 6 months) be considered as non-salaried income?

2. Will it be calculated as an annualised average or as it is since its an annual bonus?

thanks ...

[shakoorh]

The reason it says 6 or 12 months is because some categories of application (e.g category B) require 12 months of evidence. If you apply via Category A, and the bonus was paid in those last 6 months, they will average it out over the year. For example, you got paid 1500 each month gross, but then got paid 1800 gross in last month due to 300 pounds bonus. They SHOULD average your salary out to 1550 a month over the year atleast.