Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the national living wage?

  Updated to reflect the increase to the national living wage rate from 1 April 2025.

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  FAQs

  Are employers required to pay apprentices the national minimum wage?

  Updated to reflect the increase to the national minimum wage rate for apprentices in place from 1 April 2025. 

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  FAQs

  Can accommodation provided to employees be taken into account when calculating payment of the national minimum wage?

  Updated to reflect the increase to the accommodation offset from 1 April 2025. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter advising worker of rise in their national minimum wage rate

  Updated to reflect the increase to national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2025.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter providing national minimum wage statement

  Updated to reflect the increase to national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2025.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter advising worker they are moving to higher national minimum wage age band

  Updated to reflect the increase to national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2025.

• Type:

  How to

  How to review your organisation's pay rates against the national minimum wage

  Updated to reflect the national minimum wage rates effective from 1 April 2025.  

• Type:

  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Manufacturing and production

  Charts summarising pay awards across the manufacturing and production sector monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Not-for-profit

  Charts summarising pay awards across the not-for-profit sector monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

• Type:

  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Public services

  Charts summarising pay awards across the public services sector monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.