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Coronavirus: Firms urged to honour living wage pledge
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Coronavirus: Firms urged to honour living wage pledge

In April 2020 the BBC Shared Data Unit reported hundreds of thousands of key workers considered critical to the UK’s response to the coronavirus crisis were earning below the so-called “real living wage”.

The real living wage is a voluntary scheme devised by the Living Wage Foundation. It is calculated independently from the government and is based on costs such as food, clothing and household bills.

One in five UK employees earn below the Living Wage Foundation rates, including hundreds of thousands of key workers including hospital cleaners and porters, teaching assistants and carers.

The GMB union said the coronavirus crisis had shone a light on the “rock-bottom pay” of the people “expected to risk their health to protect us”.

Economists, however, urged against further wage rises before the full toll of the crisis was clear.

The Shared Data Unit makes data journalism available to news organisations across the media industry, as part of a partnership between the BBC and the News Media Association. Stories generated by the partnership included:

The story was also used by BBC News UK 21 April 2020

Visualisation

  • Line chart: Percentage of employee jobs in the UK earning less than the Living Wage Foundation rates by year from 2014-19 (by nation)

Here is the data

Background and briefing

You can find all coronavirus-related stories by the BBC data units tagged ‘coronavirus’ here