Staff at one of the UK’s biggest universities will receive an average pay rise of 9.5 per cent as part of a more than £100 million investment in staff salaries.
UCL said it will give staff at the lower and middle points of its pay scales a larger incremental rise to top up the nationally set increase of between 5 and 8 per cent.
Other new benefits included an increase in London weighting to £5,000 by the end of the year for staff in grades 1 to 7, to provide a “significant and immediate flat rate rise to our middle and lower paid staff while also improving the gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps”, UCL said.
It comes after the institution’s president, Michael Spence, admitted at a Times Higher Education event last year that UK universities have been “systematically underpaying” staff for “many years”, which was harming their competitiveness in attracting top global talent.
