Overview
The NMW rates are reviewed each year by the Low Pay Commission, which makes recommendations for change to the Government.
The following rates apply as of 1 October 2011:
- £6.08 per hour for adult workers (21+)
- £4.98 per hour for 18-to-20-year-old
- £3.68 per hour for under-18s who have finished compulsory education
- £2.60 per hour for apprentices under 19 years old or 19 or over and in the first year of their apprenticeship
- Those who have not yet finished compulsory education have no entitlement to NMW. The age when a person finishes compulsory education is either 15 or 16, depending on where their birthday falls in the school year.
Read more about this topic: National Minimum Wage Act 1998