Launched in 2012, the Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign aims to encourage local businesses to voluntarily pay all employees a decent hourly rate.
Set independently and updated annually the Living Wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living in the UK and is the amount that allows a person to live, rather than just survive. The new rate is announced every November during Living Wage week and businesses are given until 1st April to implement the new rate which is currently £8.75 per hour
Our aim is to support and encourage local businesses to voluntarily commit to paying their employees the Living Wage. If you are already paying the Living Wage you can sign up here to show your business’ commitment and then display a Brighton & Hove Living Wage logo on your premises, marketing materials and website. See here who has signed up already.
If you are not paying the Living Wage but would like to join the 409 businesses that currently do, please contact us here for advice and support.
"We support the Living Wage Campaign as we believe that everyone should be paid fairly for their work."
“We believe in working to live NOT living to work. No employer has the right to control their staff by forcing low wages on people. We love our cleaners to be motivated and happy. A happy workforce means happy clients! Resulting in a better company! We aim to grow in size so we can offer…
"I’m doing this because to me it makes perfect sense. If we pay more to our staff, we will be able to attract the very best, against a lot of competition in a city where tourism-related employment accounts for 14% the workforce. Our team is growing fast already and when we launch the i360 in…
"As one of Brighton’s original digital agencies (we’ve been going for over 20 years), we’ve always recognised that our staff are our greatest asset, and have always paid even the most junior of them well above the Living Wage. To do anything else just wouldn’t feel right."
"Everyone should get paid fairly for a fair days work, and fairness involves reflecting the cost of living in the way you pay people. Its basic human decency, really."
