UK Statutory Sick Pay rates 2024

The Statutory Sick Pay rate in the United Kingdom was 109.4 British pounds for the 2023/24 financial year, compared with 99.35 in 2022/23. Statutory sick pay is the minimum weekly leave pay that employers in the UK have to pay their employees after the first three days of sickness absence.

Weekly Statutory Sick Pay rate in the United Kingdom from 2016/17 to 2023/24 (in GBP)

Characteristic	Statutory sick pay in GBP
2016/17	88.45
2017/18	89.35
2018/19	92.05
2019/20	94.25
2020/21	95.85
2021/22	96.35
2022/23	99.35
2023/24	109.4

Loading statistic...

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Sources

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

April 2023

More information

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2024

Supplementary notes

Data for years prior to the most recent financial year available from the Employee Rates and thresholds collection at GOV.UK
This statistic is using original data from the HM Revenue and Customs and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

Citation formats