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The London living wage: Numbers and money


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The London living wage: Numbers and money

This table shows estimates of the numbers covered and the wages gained in the London living wage campaign between 2005 and 2011 (updated 5 December).

Workplaces
(by sector)
Date first employers complaint Numbers
(by 2011)
Accumulated
Money**

Homerton, Mile End, Royal London*, Whipps Cross NHS
Kite Clinic Ltd

2006

1000 (ft) £20,666,880
Barclays, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Bros, Linklaters, PWC, KPMG, Macquarie, Morgan Stanley, Normura, PWC, Prudential, RBS, Standard Chartered
Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Sarasin, CCLA

 

 

2005

 

 

1915 (ft)

£20,654,993
Barclays (London wide) 2007 (mid yr) 1000 (pt) £7,285,200
Bates Wells Braithwaite, Eversheds, Freshfields Bruckaus Deringer, Lovells, Linklaters, Norton Rose, Slaughter and May
Allen & Overy, Lovells
2010 780 (ft) £2,878,762
Arena BLM, Argus Media, Aspen Oil, Clownfish Marketing, Connect Public Affairs, R H Evans Architects, Renegade Pictures, Rengen Energy, Richard Hywelevan Architecture & Design Ltd, Stanton Williams, Thames McGurk Ltd, Waterhouse
L’Oreal
2010 58(pt) £172,318
QMUL (doubled nos in 2011)
LSE
SOAS
Birkbeck/LSHTM
UoL Union
Goldsmiths, IoE, LBS, UCL, UEL, King’s

2007 (mid yr)

432 (ft)
432 (pt)pt)

£4,692,661
Bethnal Green Tech, City and Islington College 2011 30 (pt) £51,948
ACEVO, Bernardos, Big Issue, BioRegional, Business to Business Exhibitions Ltd, CAN Mezzanine , Children of the Andes, Children’s Rights Alliance for England, Climate Change Group, CPAG, CSSA, Crisis UK, Ecologist, Execution Charitable Trust, FoE, Food Commission, Forum For the Future Ltd, Free Tibet Campaign, Greenpeace, Groundwork UK, Healthy Living Centre, International Action Network on Small Arms, IPPR, Islington Ecology Centre, Jobs Go Public Ltd, Karmaram, Lifeline Project, MedicAlert Foundation, NCVO, Oxford Research Group, Peace Direct, Quiet Revolution, Rainforest Foundation, Rethink, Safer World, SD3 Ltd, Sustainable Development Capital, The Bromley by Bow Centre, The Ethical Property Foundation, The Young Foundation, Tindelmanor, Trust for London, UnLtd, Westway Development Trust, Zaccheaus 2000
Amnesty International UK, Ethical Property, LVSC, Save the Children, Toynbee Hall, UNICEF UK
2005

165 (pt)

£954,127
Olympics* 2007 500 (ft) £4,743,648
City Hall cleaning and catering (inc traf sq café)
London Fire Brigade
MPA, LDA, TfL

2005

1247 (ft)
979 (pt)

£26,757,541
Dept for Children, Families and Schools 2008 (mid yr) 30 £179,244
LB Lewisham
LB Tower Hamlets
LB Islington
LB Hackney
2010
380 (ft)
1000 (pt)
£6,138,288
Norlington School, St Charles Sixth Form College
Our Lady’s Convent High School, Notre Dame, Trinity, Hackney Free
2009 30 (pt) £69,358
Tate, St Lukes Centre 2009
25 (pt)
£108,810
House of Commons 2010 (mid yr) 100 (ft)
62 (pt)
£615,794
Lush 2011 200 (pt) £173,160
Total   6354 (ft)
3987 (pt)
10,341 (total)
£96,101,173

Old total 2010: 8,865 and £62, 681, 059

Source: Author’s calculations

Note about the calculations: These figures are calculated using the difference between the NMW and LLW except for those working in Canary Wharf and the City as research suggests that these workers were already paid about £1 more than the LLW and in these cases, half the difference has been used.

Full time workers are assumed to work 36 hours a week for 52 weeks a year: 1872 hours a year (although many do work long hours of overtime which are not included here).

Half the workers in higher education and half of those at TfL, all those at the London Fire Brigade, the LDA and the MPA, those in the Third Sector, those working in care for Lewisham (1000 workers), schools, the Tate, St Lukes, the DCFS and those in Barclays (region) are assumed to work 15 hours a week as the vast majority are part-time: 780 hours a year. All those working at Lush are calculated as part time for 2011.

The difference (or half difference) between the NMW and the LLW is applied to each hour worked for each worker for the years when the improvement in pays were in place.


The differences between the annual rates of the NMW and the LLW

  NMW* LLW** Difference Half Difference LLW w/o benefits
2003
4.50 6.40 1.90 0.95  
2004
4.85 6.50 1.65 0.83  
2005
5.05 6.70 1.65 0.83 8.10
2006
5.35 7.05 1.70 0.85 9.00
2007
5.52 7.20 1.68 0.84 9.15
2008
5.73 7.45 1.72 0.86 9.60
2009
5.80 7.60 1.80 0.90 9.85
2010 5.93 7.85 1.92 0.96 10.15
2011 6.08 8.30 2.22 1.11 10.40

* set by the Government funded Low Pay Commission (http://www.lowpay.gov.uk)
** calcuated by the GLA from 2005 (http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/workstreams/living-wage.jsp)

* in relation to the Olympics, I have used ODA data published in September 2010 indicating that 82% of employment was compliant with Living Wage. At that time, 6,243 were employed on the park - assuming 10% were in low wage positions equates to 624 workers and 80% of these are assumed to have been getting the LW (500 workers).

** the accumulated money is based on annual calculations for the sector, depending upon compliance with the living wage during that year

 
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by Edward Oliver. © Queen Mary, University of London 2007
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