Minimum wage checker 2026/27
Check an hourly rate against the National Living Wage and the minimum wage for your age, and see the take-home pay it gives you.
Deductions for uniform or toolsMoney taken for uniform or tools lowers the rate you are really paid; unpaid working time counts as hours worked. Leave accommodation out — it has an allowance of its own and this page does not work it out.
£12.71 an hour · £476.63 a week for 52 weeks · £24,784.76 a year2026/27 · England
£1,780.49
a month after tax and National Insurance
Take-home86.2%Income tax9.9%National Insurance3.9%
Your next £100 of pay: you keep £72. £28 of it goes in tax and National Insurance.
Your pay works out at £12.71 an hour, exactly the minimum for your age band. £12.71 an hour is the legal minimum for workers aged 21 and over — the National Living Wage. Money taken back for uniform or tools counts against your rate, and unpaid working time counts as hours worked — though time spent travelling between home and work does not (regulation 34 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015), and nor do the hours of a shift you are permitted to sleep through, beyond the hours you are awake in order to work (regulation 32(2), and Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake [2021] UKSC 8). A charge for accommodation is different again, and this page does not work it out: it is set against an allowance of its own rather than counting in full, so putting it in the box above would say you are underpaid when you may not be.
National Insurance here is charged one week at a time, on each of the 52 weeks you are paid, against that week’s own limits — which is what a weekly payroll does, and it is never reconciled over the year. Paid monthly on the same hourly rate you would meet twelve thresholds instead of 52, and the year’s National Insurance would come to £976.68 rather than £976.04.
Every age band
The minimum for each band at 37.5 paid hours a week
Minimum wage
National Minimum Wage from 1 April 2026
21 and over£12.71National Living Wage
18 to 20£10.85
Under 18£8.00
Apprentice£8.00Under 19 or first year
Rules v2026.18 · checked against GOV.UK on 18 September 2026Two independent checks on every rate · 393 of 418 hand-verified cases, all passing, beside 43,041 generated · How we calculate · Changelog
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