Employers continue to set their minimum rates of pay above the legal wage floor, according to our recent poll of minimum pay rates. The median minimum from our analysis of lowest rates across the low-paying sectors of the economy is £12.60. This is in line with the voluntary living wage (VLW) and some 3.2% above the National Living Wage (NLW), which currently stands at £12.21. In London, where the cost of living is significantly higher, the minimum median rate is also higher, at £13.85, which happens to coincide with the London rate of the VLW...
