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FOLLOWING a Freedom of Information request earlier this year it emerged that only seven of the 31 colleges (Queens’, Trinity, Sidney Sussex, Selwyn, Murray Edwards, Newham and St Edmunds) that make up the University of Cambridge pay their staff the £8.75 an hour judged to be the Real Living Wage when the figures were compiled in 2018.
The Real Living Wage is an independently calculated figure based upon the cost of living. It is currently £10.55 in London and £9 in other parts of the country. However, £8.75 is the benchmark figure as this was the Real Living Wage outside London when the figures were gathered in 2018. This figure is higher than the current living wage for over-25s of £ 8.21 per hour.
In fact, only Queens’ College has accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation with all its staff paid over £9 per hour. In contrast Robinson College had the worst record with 58.7 per cent of staff being paid less than £8.75 per hour.
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