{"id":2254,"date":"2026-03-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:43:32","slug":"minimum-wage-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/minimum-wage-is-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage is Increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From tomorrow (April 1st, 2026) the minimum wage will increase to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aged 21 and over <\/strong>&#8211; \u00a312.71 per hour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aged 18 &#8211; 20 <\/strong>&#8211; \u00a310.85 per hour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aged under 18 (above compulsory school leaving age) <\/strong>&#8211; \u00a38.00 per hour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Apprentices (in their first year) <\/strong>&#8211; \u00a38.00 per hour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now is a good time to review staff wages and update payroll systems for the new financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Need our support? Reach out to us today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From tomorrow (April 1st, 2026) the minimum wage will increase to the following: Now is a good time to review staff wages and update payroll systems for the new financial year. Need our support? Reach<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/minimum-wage-is-increasing\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}