Pay and benefits

New and updated

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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. 

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  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.

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  Letters and forms

  Letter providing national minimum wage statement

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

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  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.

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  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.  

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  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.

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Public services

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

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Private-sector services

  Charts summarising pay awards across private-sector services organisations monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

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  How to

  How to measure and report an ethnicity pay gap

  Updated to refer to the Government's consultation on mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting, launched on 18 March 2025.