Minimum Wage for Apprentices to Increase in April

Boris Johnson has announced that the minimum wage for apprentices is to increase in April 2020. This rise takes the hourly rate for Apprentices to more than £4, in what Boris Johnson describes as the ‘biggest ever’ increase.

The official minimum wage for Apprentices currently stands at £3.90 per hour, but in April it will increase by 6.4 per cent to £4.15.

This outstrips the CPI gauge of inflation, which was at 1.5 per cent in November.

Annual changes to the minimum wage are usually announced in the Autumn Budget, but this was scrapped in 2019 as prime minister Boris Johnson pushed for the general election that took place in December 2019.

Mr Johnson said the increase amounted to the “biggest ever cash boost” to the minimum permitted pay level. “Hard work should always pay, but for too long people haven’t seen the pay rises they deserve,” he added.

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