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Pay spine amendment – Real Living Wage spinal point
Posted on behalf of: Human Resources
Last updated: Friday, 28 November 2025
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.