The soaring rents that followed, combined with the typically high prices in London meant living in The City was next to impossible, particularly for public service workers and manual labourers. Many resisted the call to increase wages at first, however, the labour shortages and retention crisis that preceded forced almost all organizations to offer some form of London compensation. Ask this question and anyone in the capital will answer with one word: rent.
Accommodation in London is unthinkably expensive in comparison to every other major city in the UK. Rent being double the price means that buying a property is equally as bleak.
Again the price is double in the capital. This combined with enormous deposits now needed for a mortgage has priced most working Londoners out of the property market. Just looking at the average salaries alludes to a significant difference between London and the UK. Extrapolating from these figures shows that, while significant the additional remuneration in London is still outstripped by housing prices. However, there is more to it than average salaries. A XpertHR survey compared salaries for specific roles in the capital and compared it to the national average.
The results were telling. Moreover, if you break it down by sector, the results become even more differentiated. The survey found that in the public sector over a two year period, there was no noticeable increase in allowance, despite inflation. As it did in , trying to side-step providing London weighting will only lead to systemic problems in labour supply and retention.
There should be absolutely no differentiation between roles here. If you are providing a London wage then it should be given indiscriminately to all employees, top to bottom.
If you start tinkering around, with some roles receiving more and others receiving less you leave yourself vulnerable to claims of discrimination. In the original report, a 4-mile radius of Charing Cross was all that the Pay Board recommended but London was a smaller and very different place in the 70s. To put it into perspective, Chelsea was seen as a dodgy area and Streatham was Surrey. But the amount those working in London receive to compensate for these higher costs has failed to keep pace, particularly in lower paid jobs.
London Weighting must better reflect what Londoners actually need to make ends meet. Everyone deserves to have a decent standard of living and employers need to play a greater role in ensuring we all receive a fair wage.
If this is not addressed, there is a real danger that services will not be able to attract the skills and talent they are seeking and will threaten the future success of the city. This hurts at the level of fairness. As this powerful report argues, we need a new approach to London Weighting. Strengthening London Weighting would help ensure that earnings, particularly for the lowest paid, go further, but wages alone cannot fully the meet costs of children. We also need social security to respond better to the costs of children, childcare and housing in the capital.
Poverty rates by region. Factories were desperate for staff to labour the machines and turn the wheels of production. Predictably, thousands and then millions fled to the capital to be employed. As the influx of people increased, so did the cost of living. Rent: accommodation in London is unthinkably expensive in comparison to every other major city in the UK. It completely depends where your hospital is situated in the city.
If you are staying within hospital accommodation, then you will be paid a reduced rate of London weighting. However, if you are a doctor who is occupying private rented accommodation with reasonable daily travelling distance of the hospital, you should receive the full rate of London weighting. Click here for further information on how to find accommodation in the UK. Click here for our guide on living in London and here for our top tips on living in the city.
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