The real living wage is to increase to £10.85 an hour in London and £9.50 across the rest of the 海角视频, giving a pay rise for more than 250,000 workers.
The new rates, announced by the , are an increase of 10p in the capital and 20p elsewhere, and will be paid by almost 7,000 employers.
The new earnings have to be in place by May 2021.
But the rise won't apply to every worker - just those employed by organisations who have signed up to the Living Wage Foundation.
The real Living Wage is an independently calculated figure used by the Living Wage foundation that is based on what people need to get by after taking into account costs like housing, utility bills and food.
It should not be confused with The Minimum Wage, a statutory minimum wage for under 25s or the National Living Wage, for over 25s, which is set by law.
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The difference was made more unclear when in April 2016, the government introduced the higher minimum wage rate for all staff over 25 years of age, renaming it the ‘national living wage’ from its original name, the 'national minimum wage'.
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Laura Gardiner, Living Wage Foundation director, said that despite the challenges of the pandemic, employers have continued to sign up to a real living wage.
She said: "These are the employers that will allow us to recover and rebuild from this crisis. It’s an incredibly challenging time for us all, but today’s new living wage rates will give a boost to hundreds of thousands of 海角视频 workers, including thousands of key and essential workers like cleaners, care workers, and delivery drivers who have kept our economy going."
More than 800 employers have accredited with the foundation since the start of the virus crisis, including Tate and Lyle, Network Rail, and the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
These organisations join two-fifths of FTSE 100 companies, football clubs, banks, Brewdog and thousands of small businesses, including Mother Ivey's Bay in Cornwall who are paying their staff the voluntary rate, which is above the statutory minimum.
The foundation said since its rates were launched in 2011, more than £1.3 billion in extra wages has gone to workers and families.
The voluntary rate is now 78p an hour more than the Government minimum wage for over 25-year-olds and the London living wage is £2.13 an hour higher.
A full-time worker paid the new £9.50 real living wage will receive more than £1,500 in additional wages a year compared with the current Government minimum, said the foundation.
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New research by the Living Wage Foundation estimated that 5.5 million jobs – one in five of the total – pay less than the real living wage.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “People who work for a living ought to earn a decent living. Yet many of the key workers getting us through this crisis – such as carers, supermarket staff and delivery drivers – earn less than the real living wage.”
Unison’s assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “While some 250,000 low-paid workers will get a wage rise today, many others on the Covid frontline will be less fortunate.
“Care staff working in homes and out in the community remain stuck on poverty pay, despite vital work supporting society’s most vulnerable throughout the pandemic.”