Information on Employee Pay

Employee pay is the compensation employers pay to employees for the work they do. Payments may be called wages or an annual salary. Bonuses and incentives are made on top of any base pay. Here you’ll find resources on the fundamentals of employee reward and pay, its structure and progression, the UK’s minimum wage, bonuses and incentives, and employee attitudes to pay.

CIPD viewpoint

Low pay and financial well-being

Explore the CIPD’s point of view on low pay and financial well-being, including actions for Government and recommendations for employers

Factsheets

Factsheets

Reward and pay

Introduces the basics of pay and reward, including staff benefits, and outlines the UK legal position

Factsheets

Pay structures and pay progression

Outlines the purpose of pay structures and progression, including the common ways of structuring pay and of determining, reviewing and controlling pay progression

Factsheets

Performance-related pay

Introduces performance-related pay and the issues surrounding the link between pay and performance

Factsheets

Bonuses and incentives

Understand the basics of bonuses and incentives, the trends in their application, and how to design and operate schemes effectively and ethically

Reports

Reports

Employee Outlook: pay and pensions

Findings from our annual survey of employee attitudes to pay and pensions

Reports

Employer responses to the National Living Wage

An examination of the expected responses from small and large employers, across different sectors of the economy, to the introduction of the National Living Wage

Reports

Pay progression barriers for the lowest paid

Understand the experiences of employees on the lowest rates of pay, and the contributing factors which lead to them being ‘stuck’ on low pay

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CIPD viewpoint

Factsheets

Reports