The University is an accredited Real Living Wage Employer, and will be paying the new rate of £13.45 per hour from 1 January 2026.
For this to happen within our current pay spine we will introduce a Real Living Wage (RLW) spinal point to replace spinal points 12 and 13. This will be the annualised salary of the new RLW rate, £13.45 per hour, £25,529 per annum.
As part of enabling this change, spinal point 15 will become incremental rather than discretionary, also with effect from 1 January 2026.
The pay spine for Grades 2 and 3 from 1 January 2026 will be:
|
Spinal point |
Annual salary |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
|
17 |
£27,319 |
|
G3.5 (discretionary) |
|
16 |
£26,707 |
|
G3.4 (discretionary) |
|
15 |
£26,093 |
|
G3.3 |
|
14 |
£25,804 |
|
G3.2 |
|
RLW |
£25,529 |
G2.1 |
G3.1 |
All other grades remain unchanged.
The pay scales page on the Staff Hub will be updated to reflect the change when it is implemented.