Rates from April 2022
Ensure you are paying the correct rates and not underpaying your staff. Over 200 large, national firms and independent high street stores were found, in 2021, to have been paying less than the legal minimum wage. Fines can be levied, and the business may be publicly “named and shamed”.
| Rate from April 2022 | Current Rate | Increase | |
| National Living Wage | £9.50 | £8.91 | 6.6% |
| 21-22 year old rate | £9.18 | £8.36 | 9.8% |
| 18-20 year old rate | £6.83 | £6.56 | 4.1% |
| 16-17 year old rate | £4.81 | £4.30 | 4.1% |
| Apprentice rate | £4.81 | £4.30 | 11.9% |
| Accommodation Offset | £8.70 | £8.36 | 4.1% |