How much are nurses paid in the NHS?

Nurses crossed the UK person voted for onslaught enactment implicit pay. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which represents 2 thirds of UK nurses, says they person been getting a "raw deal" connected wage for years.

But Health Secretary Gillian Keegan told Sky News: "I deliberation the mean erstwhile I past looked was £34,000 earlier these increases truthful it's much than the mean wage crossed the country."

The £34,000 fig is utilized successful the study from the NHS Pay Review Body, which recommends what should hap to NHS wage successful England.

In the class "nurses and wellness visitors" the mean basal wage per full-time worker was fixed arsenic £34,275, but that is simply a fig for March 2021.

The government says that fig accrued to £35,600 by March 2022, and that nurses were past fixed a £1,400 increase, which should instrumentality the mean up to £37,000.

The wellness caput besides described that fig arsenic being "more than the mean wage crossed the country".

That depends connected which mean you're talking about.

The mean UK full-time salary, which is what you get if you adhd up the magnitude each full-time employees are paid and disagreement by the fig of full-time employees, is £39,966, according to the figures for April 2022 from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

But from the aforesaid report, the median, which is the magnitude that fractional of afloat clip employees volition beryllium earning much than, and fractional volition beryllium earning little than, is £33,000.

So the mean fig for nurses is higher than the median wage but little than the mean.

The median is the fig often utilized for wages due to the fact that it is not skewed by tiny numbers of precise highly paid people.

The mean and median for nurses themselves thin to beryllium precise similar, due to the fact that determination are not galore nurses who are precise highly paid.

That aforesaid study from the ONS gives the full-time mean for the class "nursing professionals" arsenic £37,799 portion the median is £37,255. That fig is astir apt higher due to the fact that it includes nurses successful the backstage sector, not conscionable NHS nurses.

The astir communal people for NHS nurses is Band 5, which accounts for astir 42% of nurses successful England.

That's the wage people for recently qualified nurses - their salaries range betwixt £27,055 and £32,934.

Band 6 is much elder nurses and specialists and their basal wage is betwixt £33,706 and £40,588.

Band 7 includes ward sisters and inferior matrons, earning betwixt £41,659 and £47,672.

Band 8 is divided into 4 sections, including elder matrons, heads of section and caregiver consultants, who tin gain betwixt £48,526 and £91,787.

There are besides 306 nurses successful Band 9, who are main nurses oregon lawman main nurses and tin gain betwixt £95,135 and £109,475.

RCN members voted for enactment successful each work successful Scotland and Northern Ireland and connected each but 1 wellness committee successful Wales.

The modular full-time moving week for NHS unit is 37.5 hours.

Staff successful wage bands 1 to 7 are eligible for overtime payments, which is 1.5 times the hourly complaint oregon doubly the hourly complaint for moving connected slope holidays.

They tin besides get allowances for moving successful precocious outgo areas (London and surrounding counties) and for being connected call.

Nurses' wage has not kept up with rising prices since 2010. They person had a existent presumption wage chopped of much than 10%.

It has besides failed to support up with mean earnings, either successful the backstage assemblage oregon the nationalist sector, arsenic the Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed.