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NJC pay spine 2024-25 — verified

Coverageengland, wales, ni
In force to
Awardnot recorded on this table
HoldsSCP 2–43 (42 points)
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-njc-circular.ts over pdftotext -layout output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read of the PDFs on 5 September 2026
Methodimport-njc-circular.ts: column 01-Apr-24 of data/njc/sources/LGS-Pay-01Apr25-v2-24Jul25.annex1.txt; deleted points in this column: [1]; second pass by scripts/cross-check-spine.ts — independent re-extraction of data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr25-v2-24Jul25.pdf column 01-Apr-24 from pdftotext -bbox-layout glyph geometry (word x/y clustering), diffed against this file; PDF pinned by sha256; document identity: corroborated against independent hosts on 2026-09-05. The 2025 circular was compared with a copy hosted by ASCL (the 23 July 2025 original, carrying no reissue note): all 177 money figures across Annex 1 and Annex 2 are identical, and our source is the formally reissued 24 July version that carries the note. A third copy (Kingswood Parish Council) also matched. For 2026, SCP 3 (£25,614 / £13.28), SCP 30 (£42,123), SCP 36 (£48,738) and SCP 43 (£56,293) were each confirmed by independent reports (NALC, Community Care, LGA-derived coverage). Searches on 2026-09-05 found no later reissue of either circular. NOT established: which specific hourly rates the 2025 reissue corrected — no copy still showing the erroneous values could be located.

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Held only as the base for reconciling the 2025/26 transcription. Values are the 01-Apr-24 column printed in the 2025 circular, not the 2024 circular itself, so the 2024/25 award is not recorded on this table (kind not-recorded — the award existed; it is simply not the subject of this record) and this table is never used as a `current` year.

NJC pay spine 2025-26 — verified

Coverageengland, wales, ni
In force to
Award3.2%
HoldsSCP 2–43 (42 points)
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-njc-circular.ts over pdftotext -layout output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read of the PDFs on 5 September 2026
Methodimport-njc-circular.ts: column 01-Apr-25 of data/njc/sources/LGS-Pay-01Apr25-v2-24Jul25.annex1.txt; deleted points in this column: [1]; second pass by scripts/cross-check-spine.ts — independent re-extraction of data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr25-v2-24Jul25.pdf column 01-Apr-25 from pdftotext -bbox-layout glyph geometry (word x/y clustering), diffed against this file; PDF pinned by sha256; document identity: corroborated against independent hosts on 2026-09-05. The 2025 circular was compared with a copy hosted by ASCL (the 23 July 2025 original, carrying no reissue note): all 177 money figures across Annex 1 and Annex 2 are identical, and our source is the formally reissued 24 July version that carries the note. A third copy (Kingswood Parish Council) also matched. For 2026, SCP 3 (£25,614 / £13.28), SCP 30 (£42,123), SCP 36 (£48,738) and SCP 43 (£56,293) were each confirmed by independent reports (NALC, Community Care, LGA-derived coverage). Searches on 2026-09-05 found no later reissue of either circular. NOT established: which specific hourly rates the 2025 reissue corrected — no copy still showing the erroneous values could be located.

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Annual and hourly read from Annex 1, 01-Apr-25 columns. The circular is the 24 July 2025 reissue; the 23 July 2025 issue contained hourly rounding errors and must not be used. SCP 1 deleted 1 April 2023. The circular announces SCP 2's deletion from 1 April 2026. Cross-checks: the 01-Apr-25 column printed in the 24 August 2026 circular is a second printed instance of this table and matched on every row at import.

NJC pay spine 2026-27 — verified

Coverageengland, wales, ni
In force to
Award3.3%
HoldsSCP 3–43 (41 points)
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-njc-circular.ts over pdftotext -layout output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read of the PDFs on 5 September 2026
Methodimport-njc-circular.ts: column 01-Apr-26 of data/njc/sources/LGS-Pay-01Apr26.annex1.txt; deleted points in this column: [1, 2]; second pass by scripts/cross-check-spine.ts — independent re-extraction of data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr26.pdf column 01-Apr-26 from pdftotext -bbox-layout glyph geometry (word x/y clustering), diffed against this file; PDF pinned by sha256; document identity: corroborated against independent hosts on 2026-09-05. The 2025 circular was compared with a copy hosted by ASCL (the 23 July 2025 original, carrying no reissue note): all 177 money figures across Annex 1 and Annex 2 are identical, and our source is the formally reissued 24 July version that carries the note. A third copy (Kingswood Parish Council) also matched. For 2026, SCP 3 (£25,614 / £13.28), SCP 30 (£42,123), SCP 36 (£48,738) and SCP 43 (£56,293) were each confirmed by independent reports (NALC, Community Care, LGA-derived coverage). Searches on 2026-09-05 found no later reissue of either circular. NOT established: which specific hourly rates the 2025 reissue corrected — no copy still showing the erroneous values could be located.

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Annual and hourly read from Annex 1, 01-Apr-26 columns. SCP 2 deleted 01-Apr-26 (Annex 1); SCP 1 deleted 01-Apr-23. Circular NB: hourly = annual ÷ 52.143 ÷ 37. Agreement reached 21 August 2026 by GMB and UNISON; Unite had not declared a final position when the circular issued (Community Care, 24 Aug 2026). A secondary web transcription (worcscalc.org.uk) was found to have dropped SCP 37 and shifted SCP 15/16 — it was NOT used. Community Care's quoted SCP 30 and SCP 36 figures match this transcription.

NJC allowances 2025-26 — verified

Coverageengland, wales, ni
In force to
Awardnot recorded on this table
Holds9 allowances
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-njc-allowances.ts over pdftotext output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read of the PDFs on 5 September 2026
Methodimport-njc-allowances.ts: amounts read from Annex 2 of data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr25-v2-24Jul25.pdf; structure declared in data/njc/imports/allowances-2025-26.import.json; second pass by scripts/cross-check-allowances.ts — each amount re-read from data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr25-v2-24Jul25.pdf as the first money token below its label in pdftotext -bbox-layout glyph coordinates, independent of the line-ordered import; PDF pinned by sha256; document identity established in ADR 0014: these are the same two circulars whose Annex 1 was corroborated against three independent hosts

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Annex 2 of the 24 July 2025 reissue. Held as the base the 2026/27 allowances reconcile against; its own award is not the subject of this record.

NJC allowances 2026-27 — verified

Coverageengland, wales, ni
In force to
Award3.3%
Holds9 allowances
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-njc-allowances.ts over pdftotext output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read of the PDFs on 5 September 2026
Methodimport-njc-allowances.ts: amounts read from Annex 2 of data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr26.pdf; structure declared in data/njc/imports/allowances-2026-27.import.json; second pass by scripts/cross-check-allowances.ts — each amount re-read from data/njc/sources/pdf/LGS-Pay-01Apr26.pdf as the first money token below its label in pdftotext -bbox-layout glyph coordinates, independent of the line-ordered import; PDF pinned by sha256; document identity established in ADR 0014: these are the same two circulars whose Annex 1 was corroborated against three independent hosts

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Annex 2 of the same circular as the pay spine. The circular states allowances are uprated by the same 3.30 per cent. The London/Fringe figures appear twice — once under the former APT&C agreement (Purple Book) and once under the former Manual Worker agreement (White Book) — with identical amounts; both are recorded because they apply to different staff groups and a reader needs to find their own agreement.

NHS Agenda for Change (northern-ireland) 2024-25 — verified

Coveragenorthern, ireland
In force to
Award5.5%
Holds12 bands, 30 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, layout reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-06) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, layout reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-2024-25-northern-ireland.txt; second pass by cross-check-afc.ts — bands and progression periods re-read with the geometry reader, independent of the layout reader that produced this record; unsocial hours re-read from the NHS T&Cs handbook by cross-check-unsocial-hours.ts, attributed to nation by section heading; PDF pinned by sha256

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Northern Ireland, 2024-25, held so the 3.6% declared on 2025-26 reconciles point by point rather than being taken on trust. This circular amends HSC (AfC) (1) 2025 of 27 January 2025 and introduced the intermediate step in bands 8a to 9. Its table prints no currency mark — the pound sign sits in the column header — so the importer is told the currency is optional rather than left to infer it. Unsocial hours are not carried on this record; they are transcribed on 2025-26, from that circular's own section 3.

NHS Agenda for Change (scotland) 2024-25 — verified

Coveragescotland
In force to
Awardnot recorded on this table
Holds12 bands, 26 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, scotland reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, scotland reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-scotland-pcs-2026-01.txt; Annex B rates and Annex C pay journey each parsed separately and required to agree; second pass by cross-check-afc-scotland.ts — Annex B rates and Annex C pay journey rebuilt from glyph coordinates, progression re-derived from the journey, every hourly rate re-derived from the recorded standard week; PDF pinned by sha256

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Interpretation and cross-checks

Scotland, 2024-25. This record is NOT built from the 2024-25 circular. It is transcribed from the comparison column that PCS(AFC)2026/1 prints beside the current rates, in both Annex B and Annex C, and it exists so the 4.4% award declared on the 2025-26 record can be reconciled point by point rather than taken on trust. Its own award is therefore recorded as not-recorded (R2.4): this document does not state what 2024-25 was an uplift of. No hourly rates are held for this year — the hourly column in that annex belongs to 2025-26, not to this year, and is deliberately not borrowed. The 37-hour week is sourced from PCS(AFC)2025/1 paragraph 2, which places the first half-hour reduction from 37.5 at 1 April 2024.

NHS Agenda for Change (england) 2025-26 — verified

Coverageengland
In force to
Awardnot recorded on this table
Holds12 bands, 31 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts over pdftotext -layout output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, layout reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-2025-26-england.txt; second pass by cross-check-afc-england.ts — every distinct pay point matched against the separately verified Northern Ireland 2025/26 circular, which publishes the same figures under pay parity. Compared by value, not step shape (ADR 0021).

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Interpretation and cross-checks

England only. Held as the base the 2026/27 scale reconciles against; its own award is not the subject of this record. Band 1 is closed to new entrants and Band 2 is published with entry and top at the same figure.

NHS Agenda for Change (northern-ireland) 2025-26 — verified

Coveragenorthern, ireland
In force to
Award3.6%
Holds12 bands, 30 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, layout reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-06) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, layout reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-2025-26-northern-ireland.txt; second pass by cross-check-afc.ts — bands and progression periods re-read with the geometry reader, independent of the layout reader that produced this record; unsocial hours re-read from the NHS T&Cs handbook by cross-check-unsocial-hours.ts, attributed to nation by section heading; PDF pinned by sha256

Documents

Interpretation and cross-checks

Northern Ireland, 2025-26 — and, as at the accessed date, still the rates in force. The 3.6% consolidated uplift reconciles against 2024-25 on all 30 pay points. The circular is dated 3 December 2025 for an award effective 1 April 2025, eight months earlier. No Agenda for Change pay award circular for 2026/27 has been issued: the Department's own 2026 guidance index lists none, which is why this record and not a 2026-27 one is what Northern Ireland has. Unsocial hours percentages are transcribed from this circular's own section 3 — they match the England structure because the circular says they follow the England section of the handbook, not because England's were copied across. High Cost Area Supplement does not apply in Northern Ireland and none is recorded.

NHS Agenda for Change (scotland) 2025-26 — verified

Coveragescotland
In force to
Award4.4%
Holds12 bands, 26 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, scotland reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, scotland reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-scotland-pcs-2026-01.txt; Annex B rates and Annex C pay journey each parsed separately and required to agree; second pass by cross-check-afc-scotland.ts — Annex B rates and Annex C pay journey rebuilt from glyph coordinates, progression re-derived from the journey, every hourly rate re-derived from the recorded standard week; unsocial hours re-read from the NHS T&Cs handbook by cross-check-unsocial-hours.ts, attributed to nation by section heading; PDF pinned by sha256

Documents

Interpretation and cross-checks

Scotland only, year one of a two-year deal. The rates here are the REVISED ones: the deal's inflation guarantee triggered when 2025 CPI averaged 3.4%, so the original 4.25% uplift was lifted to 4.4% and arrears paid in March 2026. PCS(AFC)2026/1 prints both figures side by side and this record takes the revised column — the superseded 4.25% column is read too, purely so the document's own difference column can be checked against it. The standard week is 37 hours for this year, not England's 37.5 and not Scotland's own 36 from April 2026. Hourly rates are transcribed from the circular, never derived. Unsocial hours and High Cost Area Supplement are not carried: the England figures do not apply in Scotland and no Scottish equivalent has been sourced. Unsocial hours are transcribed from the handbook's SCOTLAND section, which differs from England's at bands 1 to 3 — Scotland pays more. Because the enhancement is a percentage of the hourly rate, and the standard week fell to 36 hours in 2026-27, unsocial hours payments rose by more than the pay award.

NHS Agenda for Change (wales) 2025-26 — verified

Coveragewales
In force to
Award3.6%
Holds12 bands, 31 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, geometry reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-07) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, geometry reader over data/nhs/sources/pdf/afc-pay-scales-2025-26-wales.pdf; second pass by cross-check-afc.ts — bands and progression periods re-read with the layout reader, independent of the geometry reader that produced this record; 4/entry, 4/top unreadable by a line parser, so on one pass only; unsocial hours re-read from the NHS T&Cs handbook by cross-check-unsocial-hours.ts, attributed to nation by section heading; PDF pinned by sha256

Documents

Interpretation and cross-checks

Wales, 2025-26. Held so the 3.3% declared on 2026-27 reconciles point by point rather than being taken on trust, which is what finally explained why four Welsh pay points do not follow that percentage at all. Read by glyph geometry: band 4's entry AND top figures both wrap out of their line in this circular's text layer, which is worse than 2026-27 where only the entry did. Its own 3.6% cannot be reconciled — AfC(W) 02/2024 is not held — so this record is the chain's anchor.

NHS Agenda for Change (england) 2026-27 — verified

Coverageengland
In force to
Award3.3%
Holds12 bands, 31 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts over pdftotext -layout output (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, layout reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-2026-27-england.txt; second pass by cross-check-afc-england.ts — every band re-read from NHS Employers' HTML publication of the same table, a separate pinned document. No geometric pass is possible: pdftotext crashes on the PDF in both bbox modes (ADR 0018).

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Interpretation and cross-checks

England only; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate Agenda for Change scales and must not be mixed with these figures. Full-time is 37.5 hours a week under AfC, not the 37 used by NJC. Band 1 is closed to new entrants and is published as a single rate, as is Band 2 in this year's table, where entry and top are the same figure. The 3.3% award is declared so every figure reconciles against the 2025/26 scale, which is held. Two widely-cited secondary sites disagreed with this document when checked on 2026-09-05 (one gave Band 2 entry as £26,618 and the top of Band 9 as £132,053, neither of which appears in the NHS Employers table); the primary document governs (R2.5). Unsocial hours percentages are transcribed from Table 2 of Section 2 (England) of the NHS Terms and Conditions handbook v21 — the handbook carries a separate Section 2 per nation, and this is the England one, matching these scales. They are structural ("from 1 April 2020 onwards") and do not move with the annual award. High Cost Area Supplement figures are from the NHS Employers 2026/27 pay scales page and ARE annual. Ambulance staff who remain on annex 5 have different unsocial hours arrangements (handbook 2.5), and unsocial hours payments exclude HCAS (handbook 2.8).

NHS Agenda for Change (scotland) 2026-27 — verified

Coveragescotland
In force to
Award3.75%
Holds12 bands, 26 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, scotland reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, scotland reader over data/nhs/sources/afc-scotland-pcs-2026-01.txt; Annex B rates and Annex C pay journey each parsed separately and required to agree; second pass by cross-check-afc-scotland.ts — Annex B rates and Annex C pay journey rebuilt from glyph coordinates, progression re-derived from the journey, every hourly rate re-derived from the recorded standard week; unsocial hours re-read from the NHS T&Cs handbook by cross-check-unsocial-hours.ts, attributed to nation by section heading; PDF pinned by sha256

Documents

Interpretation and cross-checks

Scotland only, year two of the two-year deal: 3.75% applied to the revised 2025-26 baseline. Two things make Scotland unlike the rest of the UK this year. First, the standard full-time week falls from 37 hours to 36 on 1 April 2026 under PCS(AFC)2025/1, with no loss of pay, so the published hourly rates rise by far more than 3.75% — the circular computes them on 36 hours and this record records that. Second, the same inflation guarantee that revised 2025-26 is still live for 2026-27: if average CPI over January to December 2026 exceeds 2.75%, these rates rise further, and STAC must publish its statement by 31 January 2027. The figures are payable now and are not provisional, but they are not final either, and the page must say so. Unsocial hours and High Cost Area Supplement are not carried: no Scottish equivalent has been sourced. Unsocial hours are transcribed from the handbook's SCOTLAND section, which differs from England's at bands 1 to 3 — Scotland pays more. Because the enhancement is a percentage of the hourly rate, and the standard week fell to 36 hours in 2026-27, unsocial hours payments rose by more than the pay award.

NHS Agenda for Change (wales) 2026-27 — verified

Coveragewales
In force to
Award3.3%
Holds12 bands, 31 pay points
Last verified
Transcribed byscripts/import-nhs-afc.ts, geometry reader (Claude, session of 2026-09-05) on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 7 September 2026
Methodimport-nhs-afc.ts, geometry reader over data/nhs/sources/pdf/afc-pay-scales-2026-27-wales.pdf; second pass by cross-check-afc.ts — bands and progression periods re-read with the layout reader, independent of the geometry reader that produced this record; 4/entry unreadable by a line parser, so on one pass only; unsocial hours re-read from the NHS T&Cs handbook by cross-check-unsocial-hours.ts, attributed to nation by section heading; PDF pinned by sha256

Documents

Interpretation and cross-checks

Wales only. Wales uses the same Agenda for Change band and step structure as England but sets its own rates, which are higher at every band — band 6 entry is £40,559 in Wales against £39,959 in England. Read by glyph geometry rather than from the text layer: band 4's entry figure wraps onto a following line, which a line-ordered parser cannot attribute to the right column. The 2025/26 Welsh scale is not held, so the 3.3% award is declared but nothing reconciles against it yet — recorded as a warning by the verifier rather than passed over. Unsocial hours are now carried, transcribed from the handbook's WALES section (Table 2(a)), which lists bands 2 to 9 and no band 1 — a documentary gap that is recorded rather than filled. High Cost Area Supplement is still not carried. The four lowest pay points do NOT carry the 3.3%: AfC(W) 01/2026 lifted anything below the Living Wage Foundation rate to £26,300 a year on the same day, and says explicitly that this advance 'does not form a new baseline from which the pay award will apply'. So bands 1, 2 and band 3's entry step all sit at £26,300 and received no percentage on top.

Employer — West Sussex County Council 2026-27 — verified

Coverageengland
In force to
Holdsimplementation month 2026-09
Last verified
Transcribed byClaude, session of 2026-09-05 on
Second checkClaude (Anthropic), acting on Rakesh Choudhary's instruction — automated corroboration, not a human read on 5 September 2026
Methodread from the branch news page; the quoted sentence is reproduced verbatim in evidence.quote; second pass 2026-09-05: the branch page was re-fetched directly (curl, not the summariser used for the first reading), stripped of markup and normalised, and evidence.quote was confirmed present verbatim. This verifies our TRANSCRIPTION only — the claim itself remains a union branch's expectation, which is what evidence.certainty records.

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Interpretation and cross-checks

The branch states an expectation, not a decision by the employer: "highly likely to mean". Recorded as certainty "expected" and basis "union-report" accordingly, and the page must not present it as confirmed. The source carries no reliable publication date — the only date visible is inside an image filename, which is not evidence of when the text was written — so no `published` date is recorded. Supersede this record as soon as West Sussex County Council publishes its own payroll notice; the employer's own statement governs (R2.5).

Sources examined and not used

SourceWhy not
A county association’s 2026/27 pay-scale web pageIts transcription dropped SCP 37 and shifted SCP 15 and 16. Found during cross-checking; a good illustration of why rows are checked for contiguity.
Commercial salary-calculator sites publishing NJC spine pagesSecondary, with no provenance shown. Useful as a discovery lead only.

Conventions

  • Hourly rate = annual ÷ 52.143 ÷ 37, as stated in each circular’s Annex 1.
  • Annual figures are published to the pound; hourly to the penny.
  • Coverage is England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland’s SJC negotiates separately and is not covered.

NJC pay spine records

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