A MAJOR supermarket will be boosting thousands of workers’ pay packets, upping its hourly rate to £10.20.
Morrisons will give 80,000 store and manufacturing a 2% rise from October.
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It is understood that it will be the highest paying UK supermarket once the pay hikes roll in.
Minimum wage for London staff will rise to £11.05 an hour, the same as the voluntary London Living Wage.
Workers will vote on whether to accept the rise or not.
This year’s rise is not as big as last year’s, when Morrisons hiked pay by 9% for 96,000 staff.
Under a new pay deal, workers saw their wages increase from £9.20 an hour to £10.
Usdaw union national officer Joanne McGuinness said of Morrisons latest pay rise: “Today’s announcement recognises the important contribution our colleagues make in serving local communities up and down the country.”
How does it compare to other supermarkets?
Morrisons is thought to be the supermarket with the highest pay, once the increase comes in later this year.
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Although you can get more pay at Aldi, you have to work at the store for a while.
New starters at Aldi get £10.10 an hour, but this goes up to £10.57 once you’ve done three years at the shop.
It’s new starter wage is the same as Lidl. Entry-level wages at the shop went up from £9.50 to £10.10 an hour in March.
Depending on how long you’ve worked there, it could go up to as much as £11.40 or £12.25 too.
Marks and Spencer decided to hike workers’ pay to £10 an hour in February.
Workers get free health checks as an added bonus too.
Asda also hiked rates from £9.36 an hour to £9.66 in April.
While Tesco raised its wages from £9.30 to £9.55 back in September last year.
Workers at Iceland get paid £9 an hour.
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