NJC Payscales 2018 – 2020

NJC payscales are used widely in the voluntary and community sector, although they are local government scales negotiated by the employer and trade union sides of the National Joint Council for Local Government Services. NICVA is not involved in any way in these negotiations.

This is a two year pay agreement from 01 April 2018 to 31 March 2020 and the current NJC payscales are from SCP 6 to SCP 49. Whilst some local councils produce pay points and scales past point 49, these are not official NJC scales.

The Pay Offer:

Year One- 1 April 2018

The Employers considered it was necessary for higher increases on the lower pay points (SCPs 6-19 inclusive) in order to continue to close the significant gap with the National Living Wage (NLW) For SCPs 20 and above there has been a flat 2% rate of increase.

Year Two -1 April 2019

From 1 April 2019, the intention is that the bottom rate of the new pay scheme should ‘get ahead’ of the NLW and as such there are significant proposed changes to the pay spine .

NICVA will update the website with its payscales which shall reflect this change in due course. In the meantime further information can be found here and here.

The NJC pay points for 2017 and 2018 are below:

SCP	1 April 2017	1 April 2018
	£ per annum	£ per annum
6	£15,014	£16,394
7	£15,115	£16,495
8	£15,246	£16,626
9	£15,375	£16,755
10	£15,613	£16,863
11	£15,807	£17,007
12	£16,123	£17,173
13	£16,491	£17,391
14	£16,781	£17,681
15	£17,072	£17,972
16	£17,419	£18,319
17	£17,772	£18,672
18	£18,070	£18,870
19	£18,746	£19,446
20	£19,430	£19,819
21	£20,138	£20,541
22	£20,661	£21,074
23	£21,268	£21,693
24	£21,962	£22,401
25	£22,658	£23,111
26	£23,398	£23,866
27	£24,174	£24,657
28	£24,964	£25,463
29	£25,951	£26,470
30	£26,822	£27,358
31	£27,668	£28,221
32	£28,485	£29,055
33	£29,323	£29,909
34	£30,153	£30,756
35	£30,785	£31,401
36	£31,601	£32,233
37	£32,486	£33,136
38	£33,437	£34,106
39	£34,538	£35,229
40	£35,444	£36,153
41	£36,379	£37,107
42	£37,306	£38,052
43	£38,237	£39,002
44	£39,177	£39,961
45	£40,057	£40,858
46	£41,025	£41,846
47	£41,967	£42,806
48	£42,899	£43,757
49	£43,821	£44,697