Check your pay against the April 2026 UK minimum wage for your age: £12.71 at 21 and over
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 16 Oct 2026.The UK minimum wage from 1 April 2026 is £12.71 an hour at 21 and over (the National Living Wage), £10.85 at 18 to 20, and £8 for under 18s and apprentices. Someone aged 25 on £12.50 an hour is £0.21 short, £7.88 a week at 37.5 hours.
2026-27 · Rates and rules read from GOV.UK, National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates on 16 Oct 2026; they may have changed since.
Choose the pay year: 2026-27 for pay from 1 April 2026.
Type your age, and switch on Apprentice if you are one.
Type your hourly pay before tax and your hours a week.
Read your minimum rate and how far above or below it you are, a week and a year.
The minimum wage is the least an employer may pay a worker for each hour. This page finds the rate for your age and apprenticeship, using the rates GOV.UK publishes, and compares your hourly pay with it.
The rates from April 2026. The National Living Wage, for workers aged 21 and over, is £12.71 an hour. The National Minimum Wage is £10.85 for ages 18 to 20 and £8 for under 18s, from school leaving age. The apprentice rate is £8. The rates change on 1 April every year.
Apprentices. The apprentice rate applies to apprentices under 19, and to apprentices aged 19 or over in the first year of their apprenticeship. After the first year, an apprentice aged 19 or over gets the rate for their age, so an apprentice of 21 in the second year gets £12.71.
What the page shows. Your minimum hourly rate, whether your pay meets it, and the difference an hour, a week and over 52 weeks. It also shows the minimum pay a week for your hours: at 37.5 hours on the National Living Wage that is £476.63.
Earlier years. Choose 2025-26 (£12.21, £10 and £7.55) or 2024-25 (£11.44, £8.60 and £6.40) to check pay for those years. The All rates tab shows every rate side by side.
Not included. Working out an hourly rate from a salary, shifts or piece work, the accommodation offset, deductions for uniform or tools that can take pay below the minimum, and the people the minimum wage does not cover, such as the self-employed and volunteers. An estimate, not legal advice.
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From 1 April 2026 the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 an hour. The National Minimum Wage is £10.85 for ages 18 to 20 and £8 for under 18s, and the apprentice rate is £8. The rates change on 1 April every year.
Workers aged 21 and over, since 1 April 2024. Before then the age was 23. Workers aged 20 and under get the National Minimum Wage rate for their age, which starts at school leaving age. An apprentice of 21 gets the apprentice rate only in the first year.
An apprentice gets £8 an hour from April 2026 when aged under 19, or aged 19 or over and in the first year of the apprenticeship. Once an apprentice aged 19 or over finishes the first year, the minimum wage for their age applies, so £12.71 at 21.
Multiply the hourly rate by your hours. At the £12.71 National Living Wage, 37.5 hours a week is £476.63 before tax and 40 hours is £508.40. Over 52 weeks, 37.5 hours a week comes to £24,784.76, the yearly figure this page shows.
From April 2025 to March 2026 the rates were £12.21 at 21 and over, £10 for ages 18 to 20, and £7.55 for under 18s and apprentices. Choose 2025-26 on this page to check pay for that year, for example when looking at back pay.
Your age and apprenticeship pick the rate. An apprentice under 19, or in the first year, gets the apprentice rate; everyone else gets the rate for their age: 21 and over, 18 to 20, or under 18. The page then compares your hourly pay with that rate.
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