These letters start off with we are pleased to inform you. Almost as though it is some god send to be increasing minimum wage when it is actually legally needed.
Needless to say it is still nothing in current cost of living to be getting slighlty higher minimum wage.
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Well, min. wage is meant for entry level jobs, it’s not something an actual person employed long term will ever have to rely on. And we have one of the best minimum wage rates in the world.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/minimum-wage-by-country
A 6.73% rise in wages when inflation is at 2.8% is pretty good, actually.
Some people just refuse to be happy
I earn above minimum wage but haven’t had a pay rise in three years. So I don’t really know why you’re whining when you do get a rise.
I worked for Fujitsu for a while but because I was one of the staff who kept a contract running rather than one of the staff who bid for new contracts we weren’t considered worthy of the same pay rises they got.
Pleased to inform you that you are getting a 0.25% pay rise. Don’t believe I ever saw anything over 2% from them. Redundancy for that shit heap of a company was the best thing that could have happened to me.
The minimum wage rise is a lot more than a lot of people in established careers will receive, putting them even closer to minimum wage, effectively giving working professionals a pay cut.
What do you do and what salary do you expect?
> These letters start off with we are pleased to inform you. Almost as though it is some god send to be increasing minimum wage when it is actually legally needed.
It’s just a formality. When they say "we’re sorry to inform you…" they’re probably not that sorry either. This is widely understood and it’s unusual to pay attention to it.
“We have had a record breaking year. However due to global conflict and increased employers NI contributions we are pleased to offer you a 2.5% payrise”
WTF global conflict has to do with my job I don’t know. They’ve been blaming Covid for the last few years (despite us being busier than ever throughout the pandemic). I think they just choose whatever is on the front page that day and blame that
Can’t even be bothered arguing about it with them this year.
I’m not getting a payrise. We’re only pennies above minimum wage as it is
I started looking for a new job. Ended up 9k a year up and I now work from home. I was being way underpaid, I guess. I do miss the folk I worked with, though; they were solid.
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Yes!!! I received a letter from the payroll lady saying how they are happy with my work and results in the company and have decided to reward me with a payrise to 12.21/hour. Sugartits, that’s not a ”reward”. You have to pay me this by law. Why lie?
My SO is a Teacher, higher pay band. I work in a call centre, my take home is only a couple of hundred less than hers. While this is welcome news for many, there will undoubtably be many other experienced qualified staff in other industries who think why do i bother.
I’m getting a 5.9% increase but we won’t get our letters confirming this until around the 10th or 11th April because my company fucking suck.
You’re complaining to the wrong crowd here mate, they’re just gonna moan cos they were on a couple of quid an hour more and now they feel hard done by because their raise was proportionally less than yours.
You’re still on starvation wages, don’t let anyone gaslight you on that, and certainly don’t let anyone tell you you should be grateful to be thrown barely survivable scraps from the masters table.
What do you expect them to say? That they’re being made to do it along with the NI increase and they’ll have to pass the increases on to their customers? Doesn’t have quite the same tone.
I thought I was getting pay rises until I plotted it against inflation. Turns out I haven’t had a substantial pay rise in over 10 years.
So I started a side hustle and made my own 30% pay rise.
3 years ago, week before I left my job we had a team meeting. Never been to one in my 2 years career there so I decided to go to the last one. My coworkers were informed they will get a rise and it was by amazing 15p.
I laughed in my head and congratulated myself for leaving.
Year later I came back to take care of my client when he split his ways with the company I left in 2022 and been informed by him that the company had means to pay proper wages to all carers but decided to take the money for themselves.
Between company’s wage and the wage the client paid, there was a fiver in difference.
Ps. It was specialized care, we had to be trained by specialized nurses in the hospital, clients life depended on us fully and we still got paid shit money.
My manager got me to send them last week and I feel so embarrassed. She said to write thanks for all of your hard work we are giving an increase, as if it’s not the law. My staff pay attention, I guarantee they feel like this. It gives me the ick. I feel so bad.
Bloody hell you’re all lucky.. I only have a salary of £12570.00 per year, working 38 hours our week.
If you know you know!
It’s a standard fair requirement to let you know a pay upgrade regardless how you feel about it, it’s just a formality. Would you prefer they say “because of the government we are being forced to increase your wage by xx?”
Move jobs if unhappy, I can’t think of many companies that would increase wages further to match the cost of living – if you are on min wage unfortunately.
To be blunt it’s not their concern and they have their own bills rising. The market dictates the wages they pay for many min wage roles.
We’ve had a cost of living crisis for many years now, it’s hardly going to get better this is just the price of things and the situation really. Calling it a ‘cost of living crisis’ makes it sound temporary when it’s not any more
I got one that said that I was getting an increase… it was 1p an hour…
“Pleased to inform you we are obeying the law!”
Years ago in Debenhams, I got 10p an hour raise, was laughing about all the extravagant holidays I’ll be going on when my colleague told me her pay rise was 1p an hour. Someone, somewhere in the company thought that was acceptable.
I was working at roughly 30p over minimum wage a few years ago, and MW went up to something like 4p above that. Went up for my meeting about pay increases, my manager gave me this big speech about how lucky I was that I was getting a raise… to the new minimum wage. I laughed for about 10 minutes straight when I was back on the shop floor
Our letter was informing us that due to the minimum wage increase and due to the rise in NI costs we won’t be getting a pay rise this year.
Noone at our workplace earns minimum wage, depending on section you are on £12.50-14 per hour.
In 2008 the nurse starting wage was 13.00ph and minimum wage was around £6.
In 2025 it’s about £14.40 for a nurses starting salary. Minimum wage is now £12.21.
Why am I still nursing 😂
If your employer pays you the minimum wage it means if they could pay you less, they would.
Be grateful. Your wage increase will make life just that little bit harder for those just above min wage who won’t get a penny.
A lot of crying "team leaders" in here that are mad they can’t get a pay rise.
I’m yet to hear about the wage increase from my employer
"Yes, your increase is because we thought you deserved a more livable wage". All of £30 before tax
Cheeky fcukers – who then made me redundant 2 months later. 🖕
My employees are now earning much more than I did as an employee. I am now earning much less as an employer than my boss did when I was an employee. My old boss who is still an employer but not my employer is earning much less than he used to when he employed me. My customers who are much less wealthy than I would expect them to be can’t afford to pay my business enough for it to be a viable business even though I consider myself a key worker. So the whole system is fucked really because soon my employee will be unemployed earning less than minimum wage and so will I.
I used to work in a care home. Everyone in the UK knew the minimum wage was due to raise from £7.something to £7.more. Just hadn’t yet. Officially.
So we got a letter from our generous employer
"We are pleased to announce an increase in salary. Your new salary will be £7.more, which is a whole 6p more tham the current minimum wage. We believe our hard working colleagues have earned this"
2 weeks later the mimimum wage increased officially. To 6p more than before. Coincidentally.
They truly think we’re thick
People are getting pay rises? I haven’t seen an increase since I started my job in ’22. Based on the Bank of England calculator that’s effectively an 11.44% pay loss I’ve taken.
we don’t get letters, but we do get wage increases each year, basically they do just enough to say they don’t pay minimum wage, but it’s pretty damn close. I can’t really complain as i know a lot of people have it worse, but considering how they like to go on and on about how important the job we do is etc… it’s a little annoying for them to then turn around and say it’s also only worth a tiny bit more than minimum wage.
I remember getting a letter, many years ago now, saying that while my coworkers were getting a pay rise to the new minimum wage, I wasn’t because I already earned that much already due to a prior pay rise. That was nice.
why are there so many comments whining in retaliation that they’re on a higher wage but don’t get pay rises. it is not the minimum wage workers fault that your salary is stagnant. if you’re that bothered by it, do something.
At least you’re getting above minimum wage. When I started at my job at the end of 2023, I got about 20p above minimum wage. When april rolled around, I got just minimum wage and I’m certain the same will happen this year.
I got a PIP one.. 🫠
It’s funny how normally this sub is like “£50k isn’t a good salary” and “train drivers deserve their £70k salary” etc. but now all the comments I’m seeing are people who are angry that minimum wage workers are getting £22k as they think it’s too high.
I wish i were earning minimum wage
The company I work remotely for here in the UK changed how my job works (zero hours contract) so we no longer earn minimum wage, quite a bit less infact.
Yea I need a new job, hard to find legit work from home jobs though with my availability due to illness etc.
Remember, their claim of generosity to you is to keep you complacent… while your multimillionaire CEO refuses to pay his fair share of tax and you pay it all.
From £12 to £12.48. They didn’t bother with letters.