{"id":63632,"date":"2026-10-27T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-much-is-the-minimum-wage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:46:53","slug":"how-much-is-the-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-much-is-the-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is the minimum wage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwage.org.uk\/what-real-living-wage\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The Real Living Wage<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> is an unofficial hourly rate of pay which is overseen by the Living Wage Foundation charity, who say it is set at a rate to meet the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It increases every October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some firms choose to pay the Real Living Wage, but it is not mandatory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the charity almost 500,000 employees working for nearly 17,000 firms receive the voluntary rate of pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In October 2026, the foundation said the UK rate would increase by 4.8% to \u00a314.10 an hour, while the London Living Wage for workers in the capital would go up by 4.4% to \u00a315.45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Living Wage Foundation says the rate is worth over \u00a32,700 more per year than the legal minimum wage in the UK, and over \u00a35,300 more in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy7e8mpdxpro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Living Wage, external is an unofficial hourly rate of pay which is overseen by the Living Wage Foundation charity, who say it is set at a rate to meet the cost of living. It increases every October. Some firms choose to pay the Real Living Wage, but it is not mandatory. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[6322,2652],"class_list":["post-63632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-minimum","tag-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63634,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63632\/revisions\/63634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}