In a significant boost for the lowest paid in Sefton, the National Living Wage is set to rise to at least £11 an hour from April.
Based on the Low Pay Commission’s latest forecasts, this would mean the annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage will increase by over £1,000 next year.
Data published in 2018 suggested around 10,000 people in the Sefton borough were paid the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage. 1100 in Sefton Central, 3700 in Bootle and 5200 in Southport.
People currently aged 23 and over are eligible for the National Living Wage, with over 2 million workers on low pay set to benefit from the increase.
The announcement, after successive rises since its introduction in July 2015, means a full-time worker on the National Living Wage will be over £9,000 better off than they would have been in 2010.
The current National Living Wage rates is £10.42, which was an increase of 9.7% from last year.
