MAJOR retailers are hiking wages to help workers as the cost of living continues to soar.
Aldi is the latest shop to announce a pay rise for staff, increasing the hourly rate to £11 for store assistants.
The new wage will come in from January 1, 2023 and will apply to around 26,000 staff at the discounter.
The supermarket joins the growing list of shops boosting hourly rates, which also includes Currys, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, and more.
Some companies are also dishing out extra cash bonuses to help cover the rising cost of living.
Insurance giant Hastings recently announced its workers earning up to £45,000 will get a 5% pay rise and a £500 bonus.
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Here are all the retailers that have announced wage boosts recently below.
Many shops also offer other benefits for staff, such as discounts, free health checks and bonuses.
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Aldi – £11.00 from January 2023
Around 26,000 Aldi staff will get a pay rise to start the year.
The hourly pay at the supermarket already increased in September to £10.50 for 4,200 workers in its distribution centres.
The move came only weeks after the discounter announced it would raise the minimum hourly rate for 26,000 workers to £10.50 – and £11.95 for those within the M25.
Now it will rise again to £11.00 per hour for store staff and £12.75 for those working at stores within the M25.
Aldi said the rise means pay is 15% higher than a year ago, and that it's the only supermarket to offer paid breaks which it claims is worth £871 a year.
Meanwhile, those who work outside normal operating hours have also seen their night premium payments increase from 20% to 25% of their normal hourly rate.
Asda – £10.10 from July
Shop floor staff at Asda now earn a minimum of £10.10 an hour, following an increase in July.
Staff previously got £9.66 per hour after a rise from £9.36 on April 1.
Meanwhile, London staff were on £10.83 and now earn up to £11.27 thanks to the July hike.
Currys – £10.35 from October 30
Technology retailer Currys announced it's hiking its hourly wages to £10.35 from October 30, up from £10.
Londoners will get £11.43 per hour from the same date, up from £11.05.
The raise represents the third hourly pay increase in 13 months, according to Currys.
Over just a year, its minimum hourly rate has risen by 15.6%.
Lidl – £10.90 from October
Lidl boosted wages for 23,500 workers from October 1.
Entry-level hourly rates are increased from £10.10 to £10.90 outside of London.
Hourly rates in London rose from £11.30 to £11.95 within the M25.
It means roughly 40% of hourly-paid colleagues now earn £12 an hour as a result of their length of service.
The supermarket last gave its staff a pay boost in March.
Marks & Spencer – £10.20 from October
M&S also gave thousands of workers a second pay rise this year.
From October 1 workers saw their hourly pay increase to a minimum of £10.20.
It followed an initial pay increase to £10 in April this year.
It means a full-time customer assistant at M&S now earna over £100 more each month compared to October 2021.
M&S said this represents an annual uplift of 7.4%.
Morrisons – £10.20 from October
Morrisons has hiked hourly wage rates from October 1 – upping its hourly rate to £10.20 from £10.
This has benefited 80,000 store and manufacturing workers.
The minimum wage for London staff increased to £11.05 an hour, the same as the voluntary London Living Wage.
Pret a Manger – £9.80 from April
In April this year, Pret a Manger hiked hourly rates for workers from between £9.40 and £9.56 to between £9.80 and £10.15.
The move benefited 8,000 workers, with 6,900 staff members now earning at least £10 an hour.
The salary hike was part of a $9million investment into frontline workers.
Sainsbury's – £10.25 from October
Sainsbury's is also giving staff an extra pay rise.
From October, 127,000 hourly paid staff get a 25p hourly increase.
Pay for retail workers increased from £10 to £10.25, and from £11.05 to £11.30 per hour in London.
It is the first time colleagues received an autumn pay rise outside of the annual pay review.
Tesco – £10.10 from July
The UK's largest supermarket chain last hiked hourly wages in July.
This saw the rates go from £10.10 an hour, up from £9.55.
Meanwhile, staff based in London now get £10.78 per hour – 68p more to reflect higher living costs.
Hourly rates for home shopping delivery drivers and click and collect delivery assistants also increased to £11 from the same date.
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