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Minimum wage rates 2010

Posted:
19 May 2016
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1 min

From 1 October 2010 employees no longer have to be aged 22 to become eligible for the maximum minimum hourly wage rate.

The rates are:

  • £3.64 per hour for 16 -17 year olds;
  • £4.92 per hour for 18 – 20 year olds; and 
  • £5.93 per hours for workers aged 21 and over.

There will be an apprentice minimum wage of £2.50 per hour and those rates will apply to apprentices who are under 19 years old or those aged 19 and over but in the first year of apprenticeship.

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