{"id":439342,"date":"2026-02-22T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439342\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:49:07","slug":"isle-of-mans-minimum-wage-rise-why-it-matters-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439342\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Man&#8217;s minimum wage rise: Why it matters to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For workers between 18 and 20 in the UK and Ireland, the disparity widens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK this age bracket are to receive \u00a310.85 an hour, or \u00a319,747 for a full time annual salary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Ireland a 19-year-old receives \u00a311.13 an hour, which is \u00a320,256.60 a year, and an 18-year-old gets \u00a39.89 an hour, a yearly full time take home of \u00a317,999.80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means an 18-year-old on the Isle of Man working full time would still receive \u00a323,405.20 where counterparts in the UK and Ireland receive a minimum of \u00a33,000 less each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the largest difference is seen in under 18s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the island children can receive \u00a310.16 an hour, compared to \u00a38 an hour in the UK and \u00a38.66 an hour in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For workers between 18 and 20 in the UK and Ireland, the disparity widens. In the UK this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}