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<p>On 1 April 2019, the Government is increasing the National Living Wage (NLW) to
£8.21, keeping us on track to meet our target of the NLW reaching 60 percent of median
earnings by 2020, subject to economic growth. This means that a full-time worker on
the rate will be over £2750 better off over the year compared to the year the NLW
was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, we estimated that 3,100 workers in Berwickshire,
Roxburgh and Selkirk would benefit from the 2018 increases in the NLW and NMW, which
accounted for 7 per cent of the workforce.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not published
data on projected coverage of the NLW by constituency from 1 April 2019. However,
we estimate that 159,000 workers in Scotland stand to benefit from increases in the
NLW or National Minimum Wage (NMW).</p><p> </p><p>We also expect workers earning above
the NLW and NMW to benefit from indirect pay increases. Across the UK, we estimate
that at least 20% of workers, which is over 5 million people, will directly or indirectly
benefit from April’s uprating. This estimate was made from data published in the Government’s
Impact Assessment for the 2019 uprating of the NMW and NLW, and the Office for National
Statistics’ Labour Force Survey statistics.</p>
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