'Employers must step up' | 4.5m UK workers earning below real Living Wage

2024 saw the largest annual rise in the number and proportion of jobs paid below the real Living Wage ever recorded. 

New analysis of the latest Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), by the Living Wage Foundation, reveals that 4.5 million UK jobs, or nearly one in six (15.7%), were low paid in April 2024, up from 3.7 million, or one in eight (13.0%), compared to a year earlier. This is an increase of 800,000 low paid jobs.