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Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

• Overview

  The National Minimum Wage is worked out at an hourly rate, but it applies…

• Paid by the hour

  Workers paid according to the number of hours they are at work are classed…

• Paid an annual salary

  Most people paid an annual salary are classed as doing ‘salaried hours…

• Paid per task or piece of work done

  Workers paid per task they perform or piece of work they do (known as…

• Paid in other ways (unmeasured work)

  If the work is not covered by any of the other types of work, it’s…

This Spend Control ceased as a requirement on 1st February 2023. Other Cabinet Office Spending Controls remain operational.

• Updated: 1 February 2023

Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.

Changes in the costs of employing labour, analysed by sector and industry.

• Updated: 10 January 2018

Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers.

Centrally approved spending for property, advertising, consultancy, technology and recruitment.

• Updated: 19 October 2023

Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes

• Updated: 1 January 2014

Centrally-approved spending for property, advertising, commercial, digital and technology, facilities management and contingent labour.

• Updated: 29 January 2026

This series brings together all documents relating to HM Treasury spend approvals

• Updated: 16 December 2025