{"id":10030,"date":"2024-12-13T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=10030"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:52:42","slug":"the-impact-of-the-nic-increase-on-2025-pay-reviews","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/resources\/total-rewards\/pay-trends\/the-impact-of-the-nic-increase-on-2025-pay-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of the NIC increase on 2025 pay reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);min-height:250px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5877\" alt=\"Brightmine background\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/19110611\/Hero_Header_HP_Background_Desktop.webp\" style=\"object-position:100% 51%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"100% 51%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/19110611\/Hero_Header_HP_Background_Desktop.webp 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/19110611\/Hero_Header_HP_Background_Desktop-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/19110611\/Hero_Header_HP_Background_Desktop-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/19110611\/Hero_Header_HP_Background_Desktop-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/19110611\/Hero_Header_HP_Background_Desktop-1536x864.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-8bf51df4 wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-d4010286 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-cararra-gray-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f90d3be4 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:25px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ad918fa9789ec722a8f35ad6958297a5\">The impact of the NICs increase on 2025 pay reviews: Stories from HR<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1c7f2111806080bfc35f87e38b7998f1\">Businesses are changing their 2025 pay rise plans as a result of the NIC increase. In this resource, we review the expected impact on pay award budgets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/11141301\/resource_page_banner_brightmine.webp\" alt=\"Brightmine resources graphic\" class=\"wp-image-4642\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/11141301\/resource_page_banner_brightmine.webp 800w, https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/11141301\/resource_page_banner_brightmine-300x242.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.brightmine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/11141301\/resource_page_banner_brightmine-768x619.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-primary-white-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0fd240ca wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"\">Published: 13 December 2024 | <strong>Brightmine Editorial Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The announcement of National Insurance Contributions (NICs) increases in the October Budget has had an impact on many organisations&#8217; 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/solutions\/reward-strategies\/\">pay<\/a> rise plans. We look at the expected effect on pay award budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-63055ddb wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-cararra-gray-background-color has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-79d58207 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:25px;border-bottom-right-radius:25px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:clamp(15.747px, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.131), 24px);\">In this resource:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.548), 18px);line-height:1.7\" class=\"\"><a href=\"#reduction-in-salary-budget\">Reduction in salary budget<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.548), 18px);line-height:1.7\" class=\"\"><a href=\"#no-change-to-current-pay-award-plans\">No change to current pay award plans<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.548), 18px);line-height:1.7\" class=\"\"><a href=\"#impact-on-other-areas\">Impact on other areas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Organisations typically plan January and April pay reviews three or four months in advance, in September and January each year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/about\/\">Brightmine<\/a>, formerly XpertHR, conducts its biannual survey of likely pay award plans for the coming year to fit into this schedule. For the current pay round, however, we produced <a href=\"https:\/\/hrcentre.uk.brightmine.com\/survey-analysis\/forecasts-for-pay-awards-in-20242025\/167364\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pay award forecasts<\/a> based on the information organisations had prior to the Budget on 30 October 2024 and the announcement of NICs in both the rate and the threshold from April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">To provide an update, we included a poll question in our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/hrcentre.uk.brightmine.com\/podcasts-and-webinars\/webinar-december-2024-pay-and-labour-market-update\/167441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pay and labour market update webinar<\/a>, which took place on 5 December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The poll question was straightforward: we asked respondents how, at a top level, they expected the NICs increases to impact the budget for pay awards in 2025. The results are shown in chart 1. While many respondents were still undecided about the impact, around four in 10 confirmed that they will reduce the budget available for salary reviews as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chart 1: Expected impact of NICs increases on pay award budgets in 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-infogram wp-block-embed-infogram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"_\/mrkFA7Zdmlnmyoq4BJXs\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"PayWebinarNICs_Chart1\"><\/div><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">To add depth to the poll results, we invited attendees to share further details of what their organisation is planning. Here, we share some of the plans in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"reduction-in-salary-budget\">Reduction in salary budget<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A couple of respondents were able to put a figure on the likely reduction in the salary review that employees will receive. A large charity we spoke to earlier in the week also suggested that their pay review would be reduced by half a percentage point as a direct result of the NICs increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b9d957e3ae17cd59b670423dce771187 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This has had a major impact to our budgets &#8211; we were projecting an average 3% increase which is now decreased to 1%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a5715f7627c9b19e50d34c712b2c9f15 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Impact likely to be reduction in award of more than 1 [percentage point].&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For some webinar audience members, the impact is felt particularly as it comes alongside an increase to the national living wage (NLW) that is likely to be above the overall budget set by the organisation for pay reviews in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1f7ef3e1db12d10c1b52ddba71123c3f is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The downward pressure and combined cost to the business of NICs combined with the increase in NLW has meant our salary budget is decreased by 1 [percentage point].&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Finally, one organisation said that it would result in pay freezes for most employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d8e114ce8f4b7504db3d840e17864802 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We are holding all salaries except for flight-risks to mitigate the impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-secondary-light-gray-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fcdab8bb wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">See how you can create a winning reward strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.274), 16px);font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-blue-color has-primary-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"\/uk\/products\/compensation-planning\/?intcmp=comp-resources|cta-single|dark|banner|cp-product-page|learn-more\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"no-change-to-current-pay-award-plans\">No change to current pay award plans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">When speaking to a group of charities just before the webinar, we found that while some organisations talked about having to find pay award budget savings to cover all the NICs increase, this was definitely not the consensus and many were either not looking to cover this from the paybill, or only part of the savings needed. We saw some similar practice among our webinar attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-515b3cdd92d74d0653871f66f549ec92 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We will have to pass on this cost to customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c7a3761f9f14e510f546b3b1e8ef44da is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Planning on keeping the same budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"impact-on-other-areas\">Impact on other areas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">While some respondents told us that the pay award budget would remain untouched, they instead gave details of other reward areas where savings would instead be sought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-5dcf766068b96b18faf2c75535cfeaf2 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We were going to look at extending our benefits but would rather refocus back on pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c64313fbb9ccad7197d362c32d177c82 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We have delayed our pay review from January to April.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-9d4951e35bcdf60eb1cdcfea84b89f28 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;NIC increase will prevent us from recruiting, which we may have done again next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-primary-white-color has-secondary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-116038169d2956f9c7a06162b3b144c7 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We would have liked to increase our company pension contribution, but we will no longer do this in favour of maintaining a proportion of the salary budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull 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