Report: Living Wage Research for KPMG
Key findings
- The research estimates that 19% of all UK employee jobs pay less than the Living Wage in 2019
- The current estimate suggests that 5.19 million jobs earn less than the Living Wage. These figures were down from 2018, when an estimated 22% of all jobs and 5.75 million roles paid less than the Living Wage.
- The proportion of jobs earning less than the Living Wage is now the lowest for seven years and the number of employee jobs earning less than the Living Wage is down by 560,000 since last year and the lowest figure since 2013.
- Part-time jobs are more than three times as likely to pay below the Living Wage than fulltime roles (38% versus 12%), which represents an estimated 2.9 million part-time jobs.
This research uses official hourly earnings figures to estimate the proportion and number of jobs paid less than the Living Wage threshold. These figures are provided for job types and broken down across key demographics, including region, gender and part-time / full-time employees.