Editing Poverty threshold (section)

===United Kingdom===
{{See also|Poverty in the United Kingdom}}
In the UK in 2006, "more than five million people&nbsp;– over a fifth (23 percent) of all employees&nbsp;– were paid less than £6.67 an hour". This value is based on a low pay rate of 60 percent of full-time median earnings, equivalent to a little over £12,000 a year for a 35-hour working week. In April 2006, a 35-hour week would have earned someone £9,191 a year&nbsp;– before tax or National Insurance".<ref>{{cite web |title=Working out of Poverty: A study of the low paid and the working poor |website=Institute for Public Policy Research |first1=Graeme |last1=Cooke |first2=Kayte |last2=Lawton |date=January 2008 |url=https://www.ippr.org/files/images/media/files/publication/2011/05/working_out_of_poverty_1616.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=2965 IPPR Article: "Government must rescue 'forgotten million children' in poverty"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825015655/http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=2965 |date=25 August 2009 }}</ref>

In 2019, the [[Low Pay Commission]] estimated that about 7% of people employed in the UK were earning at or below the [[National Minimum Wage Act 1998|National Minimum Wage]].<ref name="BFD_2021">{{cite web |last1=Francis-Devine |first1=Brigid |title=National Minimum Wage Statistics: Research Briefing |url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7735 |website=UK Parliament |publisher=House of Commons |access-date=24 January 2022 |date=2021}}</ref> In 2021, the [[Office for National Statistics]] found that 3.8% of jobs were paid below the National Minimum Wage, a decrease from 7.4% in 2020 but an increase from 1.4% in 2019.<ref name="ONS_2021">{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Nicola |title=Low and high pay in the UK: 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/lowandhighpayuk/2021#national-minimum-wage-and-national-living-wage |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=24 January 2022 |date=2021}}</ref> They note that this increase from 2019 to 2021 is connected to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom]].<ref name="ONS_2021"/> ''[[The Guardian (newspaper)|The Guardian]]'' reported in 2021 that "almost 5m jobs, or one in six nationally, pay below the real living wage".<ref name="Guardian_2021_PT">{{cite news |last1=Toynbee |first1=Polly |title=Levelling up? If anything, things are getting worse for the lowest paid in the UK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/16/levelling-up-lowest-paid-uk-job-vacancies-cost-of-living |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=16 November 2021}}</ref>