Common salaries questions asked by new staff (and the answers!) can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/SalariesandPensions/FAQs/
For P46 forms, personal details forms, salary scales and contact details please see this part of the salaries website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/money//Salaries/
To ensure you’re paid correctly at the end of the month, all expenses claims and adjustments to your salary have to be made before the cut-off date, normally around the 15th or 16th of each month. Cut off dates for the current year can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/money/Salaries/dates/
You can give money to charity direct from your pay-packet
‘Give As You Earn’ allows simple, tax-effective giving straight from your pay packet direct to a charity or charities of your choice, or into a Charity Account.
Hundreds of charities have registered their details with the Give as You Earn site.
You can learn all about the process via the ‘CAF online’ website, and set-up your donation on-line. The link is as follows, and the University is listed as ‘University of St Andrews’.
http://www.cafonline.org/Default.aspx?page=7026
Finally, you can investigate your range of employee benefits here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/employeebenefits/