The Maria Alla Method™

How Much of Your
Pay Day Is Actually Yours?

The government takes its cut before you see a penny.
Then rent. Then bills. Then food.
What's left? Let's find out.

Check your payslip or contract for your hourly rate

Your working hours

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How are you employed?

This changes how much the government takes.

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Employed (PAYE)

Income Tax + 8% Employee NI. Employer handles it.

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Self-Employed

Income Tax + 6% Class 4 NI. Self Assessment.

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CIS (Construction)

20% deducted at source. You could be owed a refund.

PAYE = 52 (holidays are paid). Self-employed/CIS = typically 46 (no paid holidays).

Who are you providing for?

More mouths = more of your clock eaten up.

Single / Solo parent

Couple (your share)

Your monthly costs

Adjust to match your reality. £0 anything that doesn't apply.

Your working day breakdown

is yours

Tap any segment to see details

🏢 What your employer actually pays

Employer pays
Government takes
You keep

What if you saved
just £50/month?

Time is the one advantage you have over every billionaire who started late.

💰 Your money at 7% average return

Historical stock market avg. Not guaranteed.

This isn't new.
It's inherited.

The minimum wage clock through the decades.

⏳ % of day spent just surviving

At each era's minimum wage vs living costs.

"You inherited more than your eye colour. You inherited your family's relationship with money — their fears, their patterns, their survival mode. And it's still running."

Your results

The truth about your working day.

The Maria Alla Method™

I work 9 to 5.

of my day is actually mine.

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3 steps to start breaking the pattern

Step 1

💷 The £1 Rule

Set up an automatic transfer the day you get paid. Just £1. You're rewiring "there's never enough" into "I always pay myself first." Not savings. Identity shift.

Step 2

🧬 The Inheritance Audit

Write the first 3 things you heard about money growing up. These aren't memories — they're programmes still running in your subconscious.

Step 3

👁️ The 48-Hour Visibility Challenge

For 48 hours, log every purchase AND how you felt spending it. The feelings reveal exactly where your money blocks are.

Get the full 3-step guide as a PDF

Detailed exercises, action steps, and the psychology behind each one — free.

"The question isn't can you afford to save.
It's can you afford not to?"

This isn't a motivation problem. It's a pattern problem. And patterns can be broken.

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UK tax rates 2025/26. PAYE 1257L. Employee NI 8%, SE Class 4 NI 6%, Employer NI 15% above £5k. CIS 20%. Holiday weeks adjusted by employment type. Compound interest 7% avg. UK averages outside London. Not financial advice. © The Maria Alla Method™