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The average deposit needed to get on the housing ladder fell 15 per cent last year, according to one of the UK's largest mortgage lenders. 

As the curtain fell on 2023, Members of Parliament (MPs) were greeted with a rewarding finale: a well-deserved salary increase.

MSPs are to get a £4,500 pay rise from April, the Scottish Parliament has announced.

Holyrood’s finance committee heard this morning that basic salaries would rise 6.7% from £67,772 in 2023/24 to £72,195 in 2024/25.

Scotland is set to close the gender pay gap at twice the rate of the rest of the UK, new figures have shown.

Care workers are the largest workforce in England’s health and social care system, but there is a high vacancy rate alongside unwelcome levels of turnover and instability.

A consultation is underway into proposals for an increase in salaries and business costs for Members of the Senedd and their staff.

This week saw the publication of the latest in the Scottish Government’s ‘Building a New Scotland’ series, this time on social security in an independent Scotland.

The number of bus journeys in England rose by almost a fifth in England, compared to a 29% rise in Scotland, in the period to March 2023, latest DfT figures show

A CUMBERLAND councillor has defended the controversial decision to raise members' allowances by nearly 20 per cent - whilst also calling for reforms to the current English remuneration system.

County councillors across Wales could receive pay rises of more than £1,000 from next April.

A recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey shows that the gender pay gap in Scotland has fallen to its lowest on record, but government officials and equal pay advocates say there is more to be done.

THE study, conducted by the online calculator tool The Calculator Site, examined each local authority’s mean number of annual paid overtime hours per person in 2023, as reported by the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), to determine the top four local authorities most at risk of burnout in 2024. 

The Scottish Parliament is set for a significant salary increase for Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs).

MSP salaries for 2024-25 will increase by 6.7%, a Holyrood committee has heard.

Exploring the impact of changes to the minimum wage on the incidence of low pay among young people

Over the course of 2023, the labour market has been gradually cooling on most measures.

October 2012 marked a landmark moment in pension policy, when employers, in phases, were legally required to automatically enrol eligible employees into a workplace pension scheme.

Job satisfaction is an important component of overall life satisfaction and happiness.

COUNCIL leaders across Gwent are in line for pay rises of more than £3,000 next year.

More than two-fifths (42%) of older private renters (55+) in England say they regularly struggle to afford basic living costs like buying food, heating their homes, or paying for clothes[i] – equating to 364,479 households[ii] – according to new research by the National Housing Federation (NHF).

Changing one’s career is becoming more common and data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows people tend to earn more money by doing this.