Weekly, monthly and yearly pay
Minimum wage per week: pay at every rate and number of hours
Choose the year, your age, apprenticeship and hours: the tool gives the weekly minimum, with the monthly and yearly figures beside it.
Minimum wage per week, month and year
Legal minimum per hour
£12.71
| Rate that applies | National Living Wage (21 and over) |
| Per week | £476.63 |
| Per month | £2,065.38 |
| Per year (52 weeks) | £24,784.50 |
The weekly minimum wage is the hourly rate multiplied by the hours worked in the week. From 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027, a 37.5-hour week must pay at least £476.63 at 21 and over (£12.71 an hour), £406.88 at 18 to 20 (£10.85) and £300 for workers aged 16 or 17 and apprentices on the apprentice rate (£8.00). For a worker paid weekly, each week is a separate pay reference period: the pay that counts for that week, divided by the hours worked in it, must reach the rate, and a short week cannot be balanced by a generous one later, except to correct the period just before. One weekly threshold sits close to minimum wage pay: no employee National Insurance is due on pay up to £242 a week, the same figure as the weekly share of the personal allowance, which a worker on the National Living Wage passes after about 19.0 hours. From 1 April 2027 the announced rates would lift a 37.5-hour week at 21 and over to £495.38, once the regulations are made.
Minimum pay for one pay period
Minimum for this period
£2,033.60
| Pay period | Monthly |
| Hours this pay covers at the minimum | 157.3 |
| Result | £33.60 short |
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Weekly pay at each rate
Each row is a legal rate in force from 1 April 2026; each column a number of hours in the week. The figures are gross, before Income Tax and National Insurance.
| Rate | 10 hours | 20 hours | 30 hours | 40 hours | 48 hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 and over, £12.71 | £127.10 | £254.20 | £381.30 | £508.40 | £610.08 |
| 18 to 20, £10.85 | £108.50 | £217 | £325.50 | £434 | £520.80 |
| 16 to 17 and apprentices, £8.00 | £80 | £160 | £240 | £320 | £384 |
Forty-eight hours is the average weekly limit for adults under the working time rules, unless the worker opts out; a worker under 18 may not go beyond 40 hours in any week, which is why the last column does not apply to them.
How a weekly pay period is checked
HMRC's guidance sets the method in four steps: identify the pay reference period, work out the pay that counts for it, add up the hours that count, and divide one by the other. For someone paid weekly, the period is the week, whatever day the money arrives.
Take a worker aged 30 paid £480 for a week of 36 hours. That is £13.33 an hour, above the £12.71 minimum. If the same worker stays two extra hours unpaid at the end of the week for stocktaking, the hours become 38 and the pay that counts per hour drops to £12.63, leaving the week £2.98 short. Weeks are not pooled: a week with fewer hours the following month does not repair that one.
Minimum pay for one pay period
Minimum for this period
£482.98
| Pay period | Weekly |
| Hours this pay covers at the minimum | 37.7 |
| Result | £2.98 short |
The £242 weekly line
The thresholds for 2026 to 2027 put the weekly primary threshold for National Insurance at £242, the same as the personal allowance spread over 52 weeks. Pay up to it is free of employee National Insurance, and over a full year it stays within the personal allowance, so no Income Tax is due with a standard tax code and no other income.
| Rate | Hours to reach the line | Pay on 16 hours | Above the line on 16 hours? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 and over | 19.0 | £203.36 | no |
| 18 to 20 | 22.3 | £173.60 | no |
| 16 to 17 and apprentices | 30.3 | £128 | no |
A worker with one job of under 19 hours at the National Living Wage has nothing taken for tax or National Insurance. The after tax page works out deductions for longer hours, and the part-time page looks at common short contracts.
Weekly pay after the April 2027 rise
On 28 October 2026 the government announced a rise of 3.9% in every band from 1 April 2027, still to be set in regulations. For a 37.5-hour week that would mean:
| Rate | Now, 37.5 hours | From April 2027, 37.5 hours | More per week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 and over | £476.63 | £495.38 | £18.75 |
| 18 to 20 | £406.88 | £422.63 | £15.75 |
| 16 to 17 and apprentices | £300 | £311.63 | £11.63 |
A month of weekly figures does not add up to a calendar month's pay, because a month holds a little more than four weeks. The monthly page uses the yearly figure divided by twelve instead.