Which payments count towards the National Minimum Wage?
Every worker who’s entitled to the national minimum wage must be paid at least their national minimum wage rate on average for every hour worked in each pay reference period. (The pay reference period is the interval at which you pay them – such as weekly or monthly, but it cannot be longer than a calendar month.) This means that to work out how much you’re required to pay a worker, you need to calculate how many hours they have worked. For national minimum wage purposes, there are four different types of work, and there are different rules for calculating the number of hours worked for each of these. The four types of work are: • time work • salaried hours work • output work • unmeasured work For full details of how the national minimum wage applies to each type of work, follow the link below.
