Your new pay, the rise per month and per year, your hourly rate against the minimum wage and the real-terms change after inflation.
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Enter your current pay before tax and your rise, as a percentage, as an amount or as your new pay. You get the new pay, the rise per month and over a year, your hourly rate compared with the National Minimum Wage, and what the rise is worth once inflation is taken off. Amounts are rounded to the penny and every step is shown.
Choose whether your pay is per hour, week, month or year, then give the rise in one of three ways: a percentage (a 4% offer), an amount (£1,500 more a year) or the new figure in your offer letter. The calculator works out the other two.
Enter your contracted weekly hours to see your hourly rate. It is compared with the rate for your band from 1 April 2026: £12.71 an hour from age 21 (the National Living Wage), £10.85 from 18 to 20, and £8.00 under 18 or as an apprentice. The same rates apply across the UK, except that agricultural workers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own minimum rates, which this calculator does not cover.
Unless you type another rate, the calculator uses the latest CPI inflation published by the ONS: 3.5% in the 12 months to September 2026. If your rise is lower, your pay buys less than it did a year ago. You can type a forecast or another measure instead.
New pay = current pay × (1 + rise %), or current pay + the amount of the rise.
Rise % = (new pay − current pay) ÷ current pay × 100.
Over a year: × 12 for monthly pay, × 52 for weekly pay, × weekly hours × 52 for an hourly rate.
Real-terms change = (1 + rise) ÷ (1 + inflation) − 1.
The new salary is £30,000.00 × 1.05 = £31,500.00 a year, a rise of £1,500.00 a year or £125.00 a month. At 37.5 hours a week the new hourly rate is £31,500.00 ÷ (37.5 × 52) = £16.15, well above the National Living Wage. With CPI inflation at 3.5%, the real-terms change is 1.05 ÷ 1.035 − 1 = 1.45%: £31,050.00 would only have kept pace with prices.
Divide the increase by your old pay and multiply by 100. Going from £30,000 to £31,500 a year is a rise of £1,500 ÷ £30,000 × 100 = 5%. The other way round, a 4% rise on £30,000 is £30,000 × 1.04 = £31,200.
The law sets a floor rather than a yearly rise: you must be paid at least the minimum wage for your age, which goes up every April. On 1 April 2026 the National Living Wage rose from £12.21 to £12.71, a 4.1% rise, and the government has announced £13.21 from 1 April 2027. Above the minimum, a rise depends on your contract or what you agree with your employer.
Divide the pay for a period by the hours worked in it. GOV.UK’s own example is £520 a week for 41 hours, which is £12.68 an hour. That was above the £12.21 rate in force when the example was written, but it is below the £12.71 National Living Wage from April 2026, and this calculator flags it. Some payments, such as shift premiums, do not count towards the minimum wage.
Compare it with the rise in prices over the same year. The ONS reports CPI inflation of 3.5% in the 12 months to September 2026, so a 3% rise leaves your pay about 0.5% behind and a 5% rise puts it 1.45% ahead.
This calculator works on gross pay. Income Tax and National Insurance come out of the rise as they do out of the rest of your pay, and if you live in Scotland you pay Scottish Income Tax, with its own rates and bands. Use a take-home pay calculator for the figure on your payslip.
The calculator counts a year as 52 weeks, as GOV.UK’s minimum wage examples do. A calendar year is 52 weeks and a day, or two days in a leap year, so an employer who pays a salary over 52.14 weeks may show a slightly different weekly figure.
This calculator gives general information, not legal, tax, financial or accounting advice. Figures are before tax. Whether you are paid the minimum wage depends on what counts as pay and as working time: check GOV.UK’s guidance, or contact Acas if you think you are underpaid.
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