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Pay and benefits

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  • Date:
    28 January 2026
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Upcoming webinar: Building transparent reward frameworks

    Join our upcoming webinar, where you'll learn how pay grading strengthens fairness, clarifies role value, supports progression, reduces legal and reputational risk, and enhances communication across your organisation.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Dates for your diary

    Updated to include dates for April 2026 including increases to the national minimum wage, statutory maternity and other family-related statutory pay, redundancy pay, sick pay and paternity leave as well as World Autism Awareness Day and Earth Day.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Pensions auto-enrolment

    Updated to reflect the Government’s decision to freeze auto-enrolment thresholds for 2026/27 at 2025/26 levels.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Pay As You Earn

    Updated to reflect the introduction of student loan Plan 5 and corresponding changes to the starter checklist from April 2026.

  • Type:
    Editor's choice

    Survey analysis and Benchmarking data: The complete list

    Updated to include new benchmarking survey data on pay awards January 2026. 

  • Date:
    21 January 2026
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay trends January 2026: Little change expected in 2026

    As we look ahead to 2026, pay awards are expected to remain close to the 3% median recorded for much of 2025.

  • Date:
    20 January 2026
    Type:
    Editor's choice

    Take part in the Brightmine pay forecasts survey 2026

    Whether you're ahead of the game and have already settled your 2026 pay review, or are still working through the process, our latest pay forecasts survey is for you!

  • Type:
    Economic data

    Average earnings

    Updated to include official earnings data from the ONS for November 2025. The next ONS release date is 17 February 2026. 

  • Type:
    Editor's choice

    Coming soon

    Updated to outline future resource updates that will happen as a result of the Employment Rights Act. 

  • Type:
    International

    Global minimum wage rates comparative table

    Updated to reflect changes to minimum wage rules in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Turkey and UAE, effective from 1 January 2026.

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