1st October 2010: National Minimum Wage goes up

The National Minimum Wage goes up on the 1st October 2010:

• the principal rate of the national minimum wage increases from £5.80 to £5.93 per hour (now payable from age 21);
• the rate for workers aged between 18 and 20 increases from £4.83 to £4.92 per hour;
• the rate for workers aged below 18 who have ceased to be of compulsory school age increases from £3.57 to £3.64 per hour.

Less well known, but where the employer provides accommodation as part of the job (for example for a live-in nanny) the "accommodation amount", being the maximum the employer can charge the employee for that accommodation increases from £4.51 to £4.61 per day.

London Mayor Boris Johnson, has also increased the London living wage £7.85 per hour, though this has no statutory enforceability.