Economy 2030· Low pay· Labour market Low Pay Britain 2023 Improving low-paid work through higher minimum standards 19 April 2023 by Nye Cominetti and Charlie McCurdy and Greg Thwaites and Rui Costa After a decade and a half of relative economic decline, Britain needs a new economic strategy. And good work must be at its heart – an explicit goal, not a… READ MORE
Economy 2030· Labour market enforcement Low Pay Britain 2022 Low pay and insecurity in the UK labour market 25 May 2022 by Nye Cominetti and Rui Costa and Felicia Odamtten This edition of Low Pay Britain is our twelfth annual report taking stock of the state of low pay. Recent editions have focused on the short-term impacts of the Covid-19… READ MORE
Low pay· Labour market· Pay Low Pay Britain 2021 7 June 2021 by Nye Cominetti and Charlie McCurdy and Hannah Slaughter This year’s Low Pay Britain report looks at the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on those on low pay and what that might mean for such workers as the economy… READ MORE
Labour Market Outlook· Pay Earnings Outlook Q4 2020 Public sector pay 21 December 2020 by Hannah Slaughter …lose their jobs, leaving the average employee still in work higher-paid. See: N Cominetti & H Slaughter, Low Pay Britain 2020, Resolution Foundation, September 2020. [3] This is consistent with… READ MORE
Covid-19· Low pay Low Pay Britain 2020 23 September 2020 by Nye Cominetti and Hannah Slaughter This is our tenth annual Low Pay Britain report. Naturally, the focus of the report this year is on the coronavirus crisis: its impact on the low paid, and what… READ MORE
Low pay· Labour market· Pay· Living Wage Low Pay Britain 2019 30 May 2019 by Nye Cominetti and Kathleen Henehan and Stephen Clarke This is the ninth annual Resolution Foundation report on low pay. This year we focus on the minimum wage, for two reasons. The first is that it is driving big,… READ MORE
Low pay· Pay Low Pay Britain 2018 18 May 2018 by Conor D’Arcy Since 2011, the Resolution Foundation has published an annual review. This year’s report – the eighth edition of Low Pay Britain, based on pay data from April 2017 – documents… READ MORE
Low pay· Pay· Living Wage Low Pay Britain 2017 12 October 2017 by Conor D’Arcy This is our seventh annual report on the prevalence of low pay in Britain. It uses the latest data available (April 2016) to map out the scale of low pay… READ MORE
Low pay· Pay· Living Wage Low Pay Britain 2016 18 October 2016 by Stephen Clarke and Conor D’Arcy This is our sixth annual report on the prevalence of low pay in Britain. It uses the latest data available (2015) to map out the scale of low pay and… READ MORE
Low pay· Pay Low Pay Britain 2015 5 October 2015 by Adam Corlett and Laura Gardiner This is our fifth annual report on the prevalence of low pay in Britain. It uses the latest data available (2014) to map out the scale of low pay and… READ MORE
Labour market Low Pay Britain 2014 30 October 2014 by Adam Corlett and Matthew Whittaker …high-skill sectors and achieve strong economic growth, while at the same time maintaining sizeable rumps of low paid work. Since the first Low Pay Britain publication in 2011, the debate… READ MORE
Labour market· Low pay· Pay Low Pay Britain 2013 4 September 2013 by Matthew Whittaker and Alex Hurrell Economic downturn has pushed a further 1.4 million employees below the Living Wage – the rate deemed necessary for a basic standard of living. Low Pay Britain 2013 shows that… READ MORE
Low pay· Pay Low Pay Britain 2012 29 September 2012 by Matthew Whittaker and Matthew Pennycook One in five British workers – just over five million employees – are low-paid as the national minimum wage falls in real terms for the third consecutive year. Low Pay… READ MORE
Low pay· Labour market· Pay Low Pay Britain 2011 2 October 2011 by Lee Savage On 1 October 2011, the National Minimum Wage rose from £5.93 to £6.08, giving a helping hand to families in the face of rising living costs. But there are still… READ MORE
