Living Wage Campaign

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‘An idea whose time has come’

- PM David Cameron, May 2010

The Living Wage Campaign calls for every worker in the country to earn enough to provide their family with the essentials of life.

Launched by London Citizens in 2001, the campaign has won over £40 million of Living Wages, lifting over 6,500 families out of working poverty.

The Living Wage is a number. An hourly rate, set independently, every year (by the GLA in London, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for the rest of the country). It is calculated according to cost of living and gives the minimum pay rate required for a worker to provide their family with the essentials of life.”

Leading organizations like KPMG and Barclays, the Olympic Delivery Authority and the Greater London Authority have gone Living Wage and become influential advocates.

Citizens UK has now accredited over 100 Living Wage Employers and in 2011, a decade after launching the campaign, Citizens UK will be launching the Living Wage Foundation.

The Living Wage Campaign and the Living Wage Employer work is funded primarily by the Trust for London.