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IN 2022, SUPPORT WORKERS EARN LESS THAN SHOP AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRE WORKERS.
SECTION 3: THE 2022-23 RESULTS
Whilst Unfair To Care seeks to only compare the social care worker role to its peers in publicly-funded sectors, it is important to note that Support
Worker roles are highly undervalued when compared to commercial roles that Korn Ferry
has assessed as being significantly easier.
Korn Ferry’s analysis scored Support Worker roles as being at least as accountable, responsible and skilled as roles such as a Police Community Support Officer, Senior Teaching Assistant, and NHS Healthcare Assistant, and significantly more complex than a Checkout Assistant, reflecting the greater skill and personal accountability held by a social care position. Despite this, pay within retail is far greater.
According to research by The King’s Fund, around 50% of care workers (which would equate to 395,000 of
the 790,000 workers in the independent care sector) earn within 30 pence of the National Living Wage level. This means that nine of the 10 largest supermarkets
pay more than social care17. As just one example of
this gap in practice, in late October 2022, discount supermarket Aldi increased their minimum hourly rate to £11 – well above the median social care hourly wage.
BASIC RETAIL SALARIES18
AMAZON DELIVERY19
£
ALDI £11.00
LIDL
TESCO
JOHN LEWIS /WAITROSE
£10.90 £10.90 £10.75
£10.50 –11.50 £15.75 –22.90 £12.21 –13.41
BASIC
OVERTIME
NIGHT RATES
BENEFITS PACKAGE VALUE £700
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17. The King’s Fund, August 2022
18. Retail Gazette, October 2022
19. www.JobsAtAmazon.co.uk