Serious The UK Minimum Wage: a flawed tiered system with a latent problem

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PSA: if you are a UK employee earning near minimum wage, check your pay in April

I wrote the below during a slow day at work. TL;DR I would not want to be graduating this year.

 

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Growing proportion of UK graduates ending up in low-skilled jobs, where they experience lower levels of job and life satisfaction:

• 36% of UK graduates are overqualified for their roles, with a rising proportion ending up stuck in low-skilled jobs, according to new research from the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development

Survey of 191,810 UK-domiciled first-degree graduates since the pandemic:

• The majority of graduates (57.3%) were in full-time work 15 months after graduating, while 11.4% were in part-time employment
• Of those graduates in work, 74% were in professional-level employment