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This table shows estimates of the numbers covered and
the wages gained in the London living wage campaign
2001–2008.
| Sector/workplaces |
Date |
Numbers (est) |
Total gained |
Hospitals
Homerton, Mile End, Royal London*, Whipps Cross |
Phased in by 2006 |
1000 |
2006: £3,088 million
2007: £3,145 million
2008: £3,220 million |
Canary Wharf/City
Barclays, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Lehman
Bros, PWC, KPMG, Macquarie and others |
2005 onwards - rolling |
1700 (approx. 3000 cleaners in total but estimate
800 covered at C.Wharf and 900 in City) |
2005: not calcuated but all workers included for
2006-8
2006: £2.705 million
2007: £2,673 million
2008: £2,737 million |
Finance
Barclays (London wide) |
mid-2007 |
1000 |
2007: 6 months only
£1,572 million
2008: £3,220 million |
Higher Education
QMUL and LSE
SOAS from Sept 2008 |
2007 (phase in to 2009 at LSE) |
250 (QM and LSE)
50 (SOAS) |
2007: 6 months only to reflect QM and LSE phase-in
£163,800
2008: QM and LSE
£335,400
2008: 4 months SOAS £22,360 |
Third sector
IPPR, CPAG, Big Issue, UnLtd, ACEVO |
2005 onwards |
estimate 50 |
2006: £66,300
2007: £65,520
2008: £67,080 |
| Olympics |
2007 onwards |
** |
3000 workers on site (2008) most not in relevant
jobs |
GLA family
City Hall, LDA, LFPEA, Police, TfL |
2006 onwards
2008 |
100
800 |
2006: £132,600
2007: £262,080
2008: £1,207 million |
Retail
Westfield Shopping Centre |
2008 |
** |
Info pending |
| Dept for Children, Families and Schools |
April 2009 |
** |
Info pending |
| Total |
|
4,950** |
£24,326,740 |
Notes:
*The Royal London is included here even though the staff
were taken back in-house as part of a PFI deal. This
happened after negotiations for a living wage to be
paid to cleaners on site.
** The living wage will only reach significant numbers
on the Olympics site, Westfield and the DCFS during
2009. The GLA family has introduced living wages as
re-contracting has allowed. The largest being the Facilities
Management Services contract with the Metropolitan Police
Service covering 800 cleaners by 2008 (GLA 2008). Ealing
Council has agreed to implement a living wage for their
dinner staff but this is being introduced gradually
and will be recorded once they reach a living wage.
Talks with the Hilton Group (17 hotels) are ongoing,
small increases have been made in pay and cuts have
been made in the number of agencies used.
New agreements have been made at Birkbeck College, London
and with a number of Local Authorities (Ealing, Lewisham
and Tower Hamlets Councils). These decisions will yield
results during 2009 and the table needs to be updated
to include them when information is available.
Source: Authors’ 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
half the difference has been used for this group.
The differences between the annual rates of the NMW
and the LLW are shown in the table below:
| |
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 |
* 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)
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).
The workers at Queen Mary, SOAS and the LSE, those in
the Third Sector, and those in the GLA family are assumed
to work 15 hours a week as the vast majority are part-time:
780 hours a year.
The difference between the NMW and the LLW is applied
to each hour worked for each worker for the years when
the improvement in pay was agreed.
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