Minimum Wage 2024 Uk 16. On april 1 2024, the uk’s national minimum wage rose to £11.44 per hour, an increase of 9.8% from the 2023 rate ( £10.42 ). The national minimum wage is the legal minimum hourly rate of pay for workers over the compulsory school age, generally 16 years of age.

We’re changing the way the minimum wage is set so it keeps in line with the cost of living. Those that can cope with wage bill increases might partly restore wage differentials by raising the pay of workers above the minimum wage.