Real Living Wage 2025/26

The real living wage has been announced today, giving real living wage employers six months to implement the rate by May 1st 2026.

What is the real living wage?

The real Living Wage remains the only UK Wage rate calculated on the real cost of living. It is voluntarily paid by over 16,000 UK businesses who have chosen to transform millions of people’s lives and raise the bar for what decent work looks like in the UK.

Nearly half a million employees have received a pay rise as a result of the Living Wage campaign.