Minimum wage accommodation offset: every value since 1999
The most an employer can count towards minimum wage pay for accommodation it provides. The Low Pay Commission's table gives the daily amount; it was also set as a weekly amount until 2003.
Low Pay Commission gives 30 values for this rate, from £2.85 on 1 April 1999 to £11.10 on 1 April 2026. Each row is a date on which the rate was set; between the first and the latest it went up 25 times, and 4 rows repeat the previous value. The largest rise from one value to the next was +14.0%, on 1 October 2001 (from £2.85 to £3.25). Across the whole series the cash value changed by +289.5%. The value on 1 April 2025 was +6.7% on the one before; ONS CPI inflation for calendar year 2025 was 3.4%. Ten years before the latest value, on 1 April 2016, it was £5.35.
Daily rate
| From | Daily rate (a day) | Change on previous value | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2026 | £11.10 | +4.1% | not yet published |
| 1 April 2025 | £10.66 | +6.7% | 3.4% |
| 1 April 2024 | £9.99 | +9.8% | 2.5% |
| 1 April 2023 | £9.10 | +4.6% | 7.3% |
| 1 April 2022 | £8.70 | +4.1% | 9.1% |
| 1 April 2021 | £8.36 | +2.0% | 2.6% |
| 1 April 2020 | £8.20 | +8.6% | 0.9% |
| 1 April 2019 | £7.55 | +7.9% | 1.8% |
| 1 April 2018 | £7.00 | +9.4% | 2.5% |
| 1 April 2017 | £6.40 | +6.7% | 2.7% |
| 1 October 2016 | £6.00 | +12.1% | 0.7% |
| 1 April 2016 | £5.35 | – | 0.7% |
| 1 October 2015 | £5.35 | +5.3% | 0.0% |
| 1 October 2014 | £5.08 | +3.5% | 1.5% |
| 1 October 2013 | £4.91 | +1.9% | 2.6% |
| 1 October 2012 | £4.82 | +1.9% | 2.8% |
| 1 October 2011 | £4.73 | +2.6% | 4.5% |
| 1 October 2010 | £4.61 | +2.2% | 3.3% |
| 1 October 2009 | £4.51 | +1.1% | 2.2% |
| 1 October 2008 | £4.46 | +3.7% | 3.6% |
| 1 October 2007 | £4.30 | +3.6% | 2.3% |
| 1 October 2006 | £4.15 | +6.4% | 2.3% |
| 1 October 2005 | £3.90 | +4.0% | 2.1% |
| 1 October 2004 | £3.75 | +7.1% | 1.3% |
| 1 October 2003 | £3.50 | +7.7% | 1.4% |
| 1 October 2002 | £3.25 | – | 1.3% |
| 1 October 2001 | £3.25 | +14.0% | 1.2% |
| 1 October 2000 | £2.85 | – | 0.8% |
| 1 June 2000 | £2.85 | – | 0.8% |
| 1 April 1999 | £2.85 | 1.3% |
Source: Low Pay Commission.
CPI: ONS series D7G7, for the calendar year the period starts in. About these tables · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Data tables for the Low Pay Commission 2025 Report (Historic rates of the NMW/NLW), Low Pay Commission.
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bd0c10dc42bc04d5af09792731464b9549f971a3ff36f9c2ddf0ee69281f08ee - Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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