Statutory Maternity Pay: every value since 2013
The standard weekly rate of Statutory Maternity Pay, paid by employers after the first six weeks (which are paid at 90% of average weekly earnings).
Department for Work and Pensions gives 14 values for this rate, from £136.78 in 2013 to 2014 to £194.32 in 2026 to 2027. Of the 13 year-to-year steps, it stayed the same in 1, went up in 12 and never went down. The largest rise from one value to the next was +10.1%, in 2023 to 2024 (from £156.66 to £172.48). Across the whole series the cash value changed by +42.1%. The value in 2025 to 2026 was +1.7% on the one before; ONS CPI inflation for calendar year 2025 was 3.4%. Ten years before the latest value, in 2016 to 2017, it was £139.58. DWP's expenditure tables put total spending on Statutory Maternity Pay at £3.1 billion in 2024/25, with an average caseload of 261 thousand.
Standard rate
| Tax year | Standard rate (a week) | Change on previous value | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 to 2027 | £194.32 | +3.8% | not yet published |
| 2025 to 2026 | £187.18 | +1.7% | 3.4% |
| 2024 to 2025 | £184.03 | +6.7% | 2.5% |
| 2023 to 2024 | £172.48 | +10.1% | 7.3% |
| 2022 to 2023 | £156.66 | +3.1% | 9.1% |
| 2021 to 2022 | £151.97 | +0.5% | 2.6% |
| 2020 to 2021 | £151.20 | +1.7% | 0.9% |
| 2019 to 2020 | £148.68 | +2.4% | 1.8% |
| 2018 to 2019 | £145.18 | +3.0% | 2.5% |
| 2017 to 2018 | £140.98 | +1.0% | 2.7% |
| 2016 to 2017 | £139.58 | – | 0.7% |
| 2015 to 2016 | £139.58 | +1.0% | 0.0% |
| 2014 to 2015 | £138.18 | +1.0% | 1.5% |
| 2013 to 2014 | £136.78 from the following year's list, where it is given as last year's rate | 2.6% |
CPI: ONS series D7G7, for the calendar year the period starts in. About these tables · CSV
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Sources and receipts
- DWP Benefit and pension rates, Department for Work and Pensions: 13 yearly documents from 2014 to 2026, each linked from its row in the table. Read 2026-10-15. File addresses and SHA-256: receipts for each document.
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
File: mm23.csv. Read 2026-10-15. SHA-256
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