Details of the SJC Pay Offer
An offer to cover the period April 2023 to 31 March 2024 was made on 3 April 2023.
Effective from 1 April 2023
- A 5% uplift on all Spinal Column Points (SCP)
Effective from 1 January 2024
- An additional £0.45 on SCP2 to SCP18 and the underpinning Scottish Local Government Living Wage (SLGLW) rate. This will raise the SLGLW by £0.99 over the course of the financial year.
- An additional 2.5% on SCP19 to SCP43, with smoothing consisting of slightly higher uplifts applied to SCP19, 20, and 21 to avoid “leapfrogging” of pay rates.
- An additional 1.5% up on SCP44 to SCP64.
- An additional 1% on SCP 65 and above.
For indicative purposes the table below shows the approximate impacts on annual salaries for an employee working a 37-hour week. Employees who are part-time or have shorter working weeks will receive changes to salaries which are proportionate to these.
Increase from 1 April 2023 5% | Effective from January 2024 additional £0.45 to SLGLW, 2.5% up to SCP43, 1.5% up to SCP64, and 1% above that | |||||||
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Spinal Column Point (SCP) | 2022/23 Hourly Rate | Salary 2022/23 | New Hourly Rate | Uplift Value % | Uplift Value –salary | Year End Hourly Rate | End Year Uplift Value % | Full Year Uplift Value |
SLGLW | £10.85 | £20,933 | £11.39 | 5.00% | £1,047 | £11.84 | 9.12% | £1,909 |
44 | £14.96 | £28,862 | £15.71 | 5.00% | £1,446 | £15.95 | 6.62% | £1,909 |
65 | £20.00 | £38,585 | £21.00 | 5.00% | £1,929 | £21.21 | 6.05% | £2,334 |
Key Offer Features
- The offer achieves parity with the SNCT settlement by providing an average 5.5% in-year value for 2023/24 and an average percentage uplift of 7% by the end of that Financial Year.
- Our first pay point, the SLGLW, would become £0.94 per hour higher than the Living Wage Foundation’s 2022/2023 ‘real’ living wage from January 2024.
- Employees earning the SLGLW would see their gross pay increased by £1,909 per annum by the end of the financial year when compared to 31/3/23. This is a 9.12% pay increase.
- Employees paid on national SCP 19 to SCP 43 see a 7.65% pay increase by the end of the financial year. This means that more than 58% of our SJC workforce receive a percentage increase of greater than 7% by the end of the period covered by the offer.
- The offer meets the union side request for a differentiated settlement.
- By January 2024 employees on our first pay point will be being paid £11.84 per hour. This is £1.42 per hour more than the UK Government’s national living wage of £10.42 per hour.