Why city regions should be leading the charge on tackling low pay

a post by Fahmida Rahman for the Resolution Foundation blog

Low pay in Britain is an issue of national importance. With around one-in-five employees classed as low paid, the share of Brits who fall into this category remains well above the levels achieved by the best-performing countries in the OECD.

That said, within Britain, there are huge disparities in terms of where low pay is most prevalent. Our latest study of low pay in Manchester – being published on Tuesday – finds that most city regions have low-pay rates above the national average. That puts their low-pay prevalence at least twice as high as that in London (10 per cent). In some cities, including Sheffield and Tees Valley, almost a quarter of employees are low paid.

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