Further to the announcement of a local three year pay deal in 2022, the details of the 24/25 pay award for our level 1-3 staff have now been finalised.

The local pay negotiation process covers all staff in the Administrative, Professional, Managerial (APM), Technical Services (TS), Operations & Facilities (O&F) and Childcare Services (CS) job families at levels 1-3.

Level 1-3 staff subject to local pay negotiations will see a two-phase increase in pay, with the first phase bringing our bottom pay point in line with the 2024 voluntary living wage rate.

The first phase will bring forward the annual pay award to Wednesday 1 May 2024 increasing pay by 2.06% (starting at £12.00 per hour at pay point 10) maintaining existing pay differentials throughout APM, TS, and O&F pay scales.

Childcare Services staff will be assimilated to the equivalent evaluated APM, TS and O&F level 1-2 hourly rates developing a new pay scale to reflect they work 39 hours per week.

Allowance payments will receive a flat 2.06% increase as of 1 May 2024.

The second phase of the 2024/25 pay agreement will see allowance payments and pay points within Level 1-3 APM, TS, O&F and CS pay scales receive a typical increase of 4.17% from Friday 1 November 2024.

Whilst the date of the second increase will be effective from 1 November 2024, the month the increase is applied in will be confirmed once the new go live date for UniCore is announced.

Incremental progression

71.4% of level 1-3 staff are eligible for an increment from 1 August 2024. Level 3 staff promoted to level 4 will transfer to the first pay point within the level 4 scale that provides a financial increase. CS1 staff moving to the new pay scale range will be eligible to increment to the second pay point within CS1 pay scale from 1 August 2025.

Click here to find new Salary Scales for APM, TS and O&F staff L1-3 staff for the period 1 May 2024 to 31 October 2024 and 1 November 2024 to 31 July 2025.

Click here to find new Salary Scales for L1-2 Childcare Services staff for the period 1 May 2024 to 31 October 2024 and 1 November 2024 to 31 July 2025.

As confirmed in the 2022 pay agreement, Level 1-3 staff will receive an additional 1 day annual leave to be increased from October 2024 or January 2025 (determined by your annual leave year) moving from 26 to 27 days.

Level 4-6 Pay Award 2024/25

We will provide an update on the annual cost of living pay award for level 4-6 staff as soon as possible following conclusion of the national pay negotiations.