Salaries

When you come to work for us, your salary is worked out based on a pay grading system and you will see that our job adverts usually reference the pay grade along with the salary range.

Our salaries are competitive and based on the nature and level of the role.

To help you to understand what we pay our staff, we have shared the payscale and some further information below.

Pay grades are made up of a number of steps, called spinal points. These are what we call incremental, which means they increase as you go up the scale. You can usually expect to receive an annual increase until you reach the top of your pay scale, at which point you will stay at that scale, unless you choose to apply for a new job on a higher scale.

Pay grades for 2023/24 are:

Grade	Spinal point
1	3
2	3-4
3	4-6
4	5-8
5	7-12
6	11-17
7	15-22
8	20-25
9	24-28
10	27-31
11	30-34
12	33-37
13	36-40
14	39-43
15	42-46
16	45-49

Spinal point	Salary
3	£22,737
4	£23,114
5	£23,500
6	£23,893
7	£24,294
8	£24,702
9	£25,119
10	£25,545
11	£25,979
12	£26,421
13	£26,873
14	£27,334
15	£27,803
16	£28,282
17	£28,770
18	£29,269
19	£29,777
20	£30,296
21	£30,825
22	£31,364
23	£32,076
24	£33,024
25	£33,945
26	£34,834
27	£35,745
28	£36,648
29	£37,336
30	£38,223
31	£39,186
32	£40,221
33	£41,418
34	£42,403
35	£43,421
36	£44,428
37	£45,441
38	£46,464
39	£47,420
40	£48,474
41	£49,498
42	£50,512
43	£51,515
44	£52,488
45	£53,463
46	£54,438
47	£55,412
48	£56,387
49	£57,364

Please note spinal points 10, 13, 16, 18 and 21 are not used to ensure there are no more than 5 spinal points per grade.

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