Lidl is increasing pay for hourly-paid employees for the third time in 12 months.

Pay will rise to a minimum of £12.40 from £12.00, while in London pay will rise from £13.55 to £13.65.

Lidl said pay rates will increase with the length of service, rising to £13.00 nationally and £14.00 within London. The discounter claims these are the highest hourly pay rates in the industry.

The budget supermarket’s latest pay rise represents an investment of over £2.5 million. It follows previous investments of £37 million in March and £8 million in September 2023.

In March, rival discounter Aldi raised pay for the second time this year. Pay for store assistants and deputy store managers rose from £12.00 to £12.40 nationally, while those within in the M25 received an hourly increase of 10p from £13.55 to £13.65.

In the same month, Asda also announced that it would give more than 120,000 workers across the UK an 8.4 per cent pay rise from 1 July to £12.04 per hour.

“The critical role that our colleagues play in driving our growth is always front of mind for us, which is why we’re committed to offering extremely competitive pay alongside a raft of other benefits,” said Stephanie Rogers, chief human resources officer at Lidl GB. “We want to continue to support and strengthen the teams that run our stores and warehouses every day, whilst attracting the best new talent. This latest investment helps us to do just that”.

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