MINIMUM WAGE OCTOBER 2011

Increases to the minimum wage rates, which take effect from 1 October 2011 has been announced by the Government:-

•   Standard adult rate (workers aged 21 and over): £6.08

•  Development rate (workers aged between 18 and 20): £4.98

•  Young workers rate (workers aged under 18 but above the compulsory school age who are not apprentices): £3.68

•  Apprentice rates - under 19 or those aged 19 and over but in the first year of their apprenticeship: £2.60

•   All other apprentices: national minimum wage at appropriate age rate.