Aldi is currently the best-paying supermarket in the UK for store staff, having raised its national minimum rate to £12.40 an hour in March 2024, with further increases to £13.00+ scheduled for September 2025. For London-based staff, rates exceed £14 an hour. Aldi also offers paid breaks, making it the top payer.
Aldi. From September, hourly rates at Aldi are set to increase to a new sector-lead of at least £13.00 nationally, rising to £13.93 based on length of service, and to at least £14.33 within the M25, rising to £14.64. ...
Then Aldi matched Lidl's offer nationally but went higher inside the M25. It left both paying a current £12.75 an hour nationally and Aldi paying £14.05 an hour within the M25 to Lidl's £14. Both discounters' rates also rise after a minimum length of service.
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Colleagues across both Sainsbury's and Argos will move from £12 to £12.45 per hour in March, and £13.15 to £13.70 for those based in London, with a further increase to £12.60 per hour in August and £13.85 for those based in London. By August, pay for hourly-paid colleagues will have increased by 58 per cent since 2018.
Aldi is set to introduce a new £13.35 rule from March 1. The German supermarket will hand staff a pay rise in less than two months, ahead of an increase to the national minimum wage in April. The Labour Party government has hiked wage rates for millions of workers.
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But in London, Lidl has gone 2p higher than Aldi's new rate of £14.33 an hour. The pattern echoes the last time the pair raised rates, but in reverse. Aldi set the bar first, only for Lidl to match it within the M25 but go higher elsewhere.
Major supermarket announces 'bigger than expected' pay rise for thousands of staff to remain UK's 'highest-paying' Aldi today announced a 'bigger than expected' pay rise for supermarket staff from next week to ensure it remains the best-paying chain ahead of discount rival Lidl.
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From Sunday 1st March 2026, starting pay for Store Assistants will rise to £13.35 per hour nationally, and £14.71 per hour within the M25, rising to £14.30 per hour and £15.03 within the M25 based on length of service.
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