THE NUMBER of businesses paying the Real Living Wage in Reading has been listed.
It comes after it was announced that more than 300,000 people working for employers who have voluntarily signed up to the Real Living Wage are getting a pay boost of 40p.
Businesses volunteer to pay the living wage, which is higher than the national minimum wage and reflects the cost of living, renting and food shopping.
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How much do you earn on the living wage?
From next year (April 2022), employees who get the living wage in London will have an hourly rate of £11.05.
Outside of the capital, it will be £9.90.
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In comparison, the national minimum wage is set at £8.91 for anybody over the age of 23.
What employers are paying the Reading Living Wage?
1) Thames Water Utilities LTD
2) Savills - Reading
3) Blake Morgan
4) Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
5) PwC Reading
6) Thames Valley Office
7) ConvaTec Headquarters
8) Stott and May Thames Valley
9) Reading Branch
10) Reading Borough Council
11) Reading Association for the Blind
12) Mid-Thames Area Quakers
13) Photon Energy LTD
14) Pearson Vue
15) Work.Life Reading
16) Oxfam Music Shop
17) Deloitte Reading
18) MiCiM Ltd
19) Objective Corporation UK Ltd
20) Troup Bywaters + Anders - Reading
21) Nationwide Building Society
22) Co-orperative Bank
23) Williams and Co
24) Green World Reycling
25) Santander
26) Blue Angel Care
27) Trifle Solutions
28) Heroes Homecare
29) St Nicholas Church, Earley
30) Organico Realfoods Limited
31) Bytes Software Services Limited
32) CGI IT UK Limited
33) Barclays
34) Lloyds
35) Swiftpak Ltd
36) KPMG
37) New Homes Flooring LTD
38) Tecan UK
39) Cotswold Fayre
40) Osirian Consulting LTD
41) Accord
42) Ultima Business Solutions Ltd
43) Parents and Children Together
44) KYOCERA Document Solutions
If we have missed out your business offering the Real Living Wage, then email isabella.perrin@newsquest.co.uk to be added to the list.
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