{"id":1731,"date":"2018-02-14T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T10:46:14","slug":"national-minimum-wage-and-national-living-wage-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/national-minimum-wage-and-national-living-wage-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ou must be at least:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/know-when-you-can-leave-school\">school leaving age<\/a> to get the National Minimum Wage<\/li>\n<li>aged 25 to get the National Living Wage &#8211; the minimum wage will still apply for workers aged 24 and under<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"current-rates\">Current rates<\/h2>\n<p>These rates are for the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage. The rates change every April.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Year<\/th>\n<th>25 and over<\/th>\n<th>21 to 24<\/th>\n<th>18 to 20<\/th>\n<th>Under 18<\/th>\n<th>Apprentice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>April 2017 (current)<\/td>\n<td>\u00a37.50<\/td>\n<td>\u00a37.05<\/td>\n<td>\u00a35.60<\/td>\n<td>\u00a34.05<\/td>\n<td>\u00a33.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>April 2018<\/td>\n<td>\u00a37.83<\/td>\n<td>\u00a37.38<\/td>\n<td>\u00a35.90<\/td>\n<td>\u00a34.20<\/td>\n<td>\u00a33.70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 id=\"apprentices\">Apprentices<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/apprenticeships-guide\">Apprentices<\/a> are entitled to the apprentice rate if they\u2019re either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>aged under 19<\/li>\n<li>aged 19 or over and in the first year of their apprenticeship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong> An apprentice aged 22 in the first year of their apprenticeship is entitled to a minimum hourly rate of \u00a33.50<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apprentices are entitled to the minimum wage for their age if they both:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are aged 19 or over<\/li>\n<li>have completed the first year of their apprenticeship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong> An apprentice aged 22 who has completed the first year of their apprenticeship is entitled to a minimum hourly rate of \u00a37.05<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"previous-rates\">Previous rates<\/h2>\n<p>The following rates were for the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage from April 2016.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Year<\/th>\n<th>25 and over<\/th>\n<th>21 to 24<\/th>\n<th>18 to 20<\/th>\n<th>Under 18<\/th>\n<th>Apprentice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>October 2016 to March 2017<\/td>\n<td>\u00a37.20<\/td>\n<td>\u00a36.95<\/td>\n<td>\u00a35.55<\/td>\n<td>\u00a34.00<\/td>\n<td>\u00a33.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>April 2016 to September 2016<\/td>\n<td>\u00a37.20<\/td>\n<td>\u00a36.70<\/td>\n<td>\u00a35.30<\/td>\n<td>\u00a33.87<\/td>\n<td>\u00a33.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ou must be at least: school leaving age to get the National Minimum Wage aged 25 to get the National Living Wage &#8211; the minimum wage will still apply for workers aged 24 and under Current rates These rates are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pmabookkeeping.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}