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Jersey minimum wage rises to £13.97 an hour from April 2027
The Amendment No. 2 Order 2026 also raises the amounts employers may count toward the wage for food and accommodation, to £209.02 a week, and for accommodation alone, to £156.87 a week.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 9 November 2026
Industry: Across industries
Jersey's statutory minimum wage rises to £13.97 an hour from 1 April 2027Jerseylaw
Jerseylaw. The Employment (Minimum Wage) (Jersey) Amendment No. 2 Order 2026, made by the Minister for Social Security on 9 November 2026
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Jerseylaw, substitutes £13.97 for £13.59 in Article 2(1) of the Employment (Minimum Wage) (Jersey) Order 2007
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Jerseylaw — a rise of 38p an hour.
The rate applies to an employee who has ceased to be of compulsory school ageJerseylaw, and compliance is measured over the pay reference period: one calendar month where the employee is paid by reference to a month or longer, or the shorter period where pay is calculated over fewer days. Separate hourly rates continue for trainees in approved training — £10.50 during the first year of the training job and £11.75 during the second — while paragraphs (2) and (2A) do not apply where the training job started before 1 September 2025. Work done to gain experience as a required part of a course at an academic establishment stays outside the minimum-wage article altogether.
Employers who provide board or lodging must also apply higher offset capsJerseylaw. Where the employer provides food and living accommodation, the maximum amount that may be counted toward the wage for any other employee rises from £203.35 a week (£29.05 a day) to £209.02 a week (£29.86 a day)
Jerseylaw. Where only living accommodation is provided, the cap rises from £152.60 a week (£21.80 a day) to £156.87 a week (£22.41 a day)
Jerseylaw. The caps for trainees are untouched: £157.15 a week (£22.45 a day) for food and accommodation, and £117.95 a week (£16.85 a day) for accommodation alone. The caps are prescribed for the purposes of the hourly-rate calculation in the Employment (Minimum Wage) (Jersey) Regulations 2004, so any value the employer attributes above the cap cannot count toward the £13.97 floor
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In practice, Jersey payroll teams should re-rate hourly-paid staff for pay periods covering 1 April 2027, revisit any accommodation charges or deductions set against the wage, and keep records sufficient to prove the hourly rate for ten years in a form that produces each pay reference period's evidence in a single document.
The changes sit in the Employment (Minimum Wage) (Jersey) Order 2007 as amended by the Amendment No. 2 Order 2026, made under Articles 17A(1)(a) and (3) and 104 of the Employment (Jersey) Law 2003 after referral of the matters to the Employment Forum.
Re-rate Jersey hourly-paid staff to £13.97 and update accommodation offset calculations for pay periods covering 1 April 2027.