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<p>Through the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW), the Government
ensures that the lowest paid in our society are fairly rewarded for their work. April
2019’s increase to the NLW will see nearly 1.8 million workers in the UK receive a
4.9% pay rise. A full-time worker on the NLW will now be more than £2,750 better off
over the year compared to when it was first announced in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The table
below provides estimates for the number and proportion of jobs in the UK and Yorkshire
and the Humber on the NLW and NMW in 2019. The most recent available data for Barnsley,
and South Yorkshire, shows that there were an estimated 5,500 workers and 47,200 workers
respectively who were on the NLW or NMW.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><ins
class="ministerial"><strong>National Living Wage</strong></ins></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><ins
class="ministerial"><strong>National Minimum Wage</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins
class="ministerial"><em>Number of jobs</em></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>%
of jobs</em></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Number of jobs</em></ins></p></td><td><p><ins
class="ministerial"><em>% of jobs</em></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">UK</ins></p></td><td><p><ins
class="ministerial">1,762,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">7.2%</ins></p></td><td><p><ins
class="ministerial">341,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">9.8%</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins
class="ministerial">Yorkshire and the Humber</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">172,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins
class="ministerial">8.8%</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">36,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins
class="ministerial">12.0%</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>
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