Almost two million workers across the UK will get a “significant” pay boost when the national living wage (NLW) increases from Saturday.
The 92p rise to 10.42 an hour for workers aged 23 and over is equivalent to a near 10% increase, according to The Resolution Foundation.
Separately, the national minimum wage for people aged 21 to 22 will also increase, going up by 1 to 10.18.
For those aged 18 to 20 it will increase to 7.49 from 6.83. People aged under 18 and on apprentice contracts will see the minimum wage rise from 4.81 to 5.28.
The Poverty Alliance in Glasgow, which delivers the Living Wage Scotland programme, estimates that more than 140,000 workers across Scotland will benefit from the new rates coming into effect from April 1.
Lynn Anderson, living wage Scotland manager at the Poverty Alliance said: “The increase in statutory wage rates taking effect from 1 April will offer some relief for thousands of low paid workers in Scotland, who are struggling to stay afloat amid rising costs.
“However only workers aged 23 and over will be eligible for the highest legal wage rate of 10.42, which is still lower than the real living wage rate of 10.90.
“The real living wage is independently calculated each year based on the amount (that) workers and their families need to get by, and a new rate will be announced this autumn.
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