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The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom. [2] From 1 April 2024, the minimum wage is £11.44 per hour for people aged 21 and over, £8.60 for 18- to 20-year-olds, and £6.40 for 16- to 17-year-olds and apprentices aged under 19 or in the first year of their apprenticeship. [3]
The National Living Wage is an obligatory minimum wage payable to workers in the United Kingdom aged 21 [a] and over which came into effect on 1 April 2016. As of April 2024 [update] it is £11.44 per hour. [ 1 ]
The National Minimum Wage is set to increase by 6.7% (reaching £12.21 per hour) and a £22.6 billion increase in the day-to-day health budget was announced, with a £3.1 billion increase in the capital budget. That includes £1 billion for hospital repairs and rebuilding projects.
From April, the minimum wage will increase by an above-inflation 6.7 per cent. This will see it increase from £11.44 to £12.21 for workers aged 21 and over.
That will partly be driven by the hourly national minimum wage rising from £11.44 to £12.21 from April – amounting to a £1,400 annual pay rise for a full-time worker on the national living wage.
But Mencap said the rise in its NI costs would total £5.3m every year. A rise to the national minimum wage at the same time, which will see rates for over-21s go up to £12.21 an hour, will cost ...
The following list provides information relating to the minimum wages (gross) of countries in Europe. [1] [2]The calculations are based on the assumption of a 40-hour working week and a 52-week year, with the exceptions of France (35 hours), [3] Belgium (38 hours), [4] United Kingdom (38 hours), [3] Germany (38 hours), [5] Ireland (39 hours) [5] and Monaco (39 hours). [6]
The following list provides information relating to the (gross) minimum wages (before tax & social charges) of in the European Union member states. The calculations are based on the assumption of a 40-hour working week and a 52-week year, with the exceptions of France (35 hours), [1] Belgium (38 hours), [2] Ireland (39 hours), [1] and Germany (39.1 hours).