Pay awards
Information for staff about pay awards
UCEA conducts collective pay negotiations with the five HE trade unions - UCU, UNISON, Unite, EIS and GMB - on behalf of a significant number of UK HE institutions. This is done through the Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES). UCEA member institutions decide individually whether they will participate in each negotiating round to address the uplift to be applied to the national pay spine. The negotiations take place annually, between March and May with dispute resolution meetings held in July if necessary.
The University remains committed to the national bargaining arrangements via New JNCHES and is committed to constructive dialogue with the trade unions. Once agreed for implementation the University applies the pay award to all staff on non-clinical grades. Further information about the process is available from UCEA.
Separate arrangements exist for Clinical pay awards, which are agreed nationally by UCEA and effective from 1 April each year. The awards tend to reflect what has been agreed for NHS salary scales.
See latest news for information about the current pay negotiations.
2023/24 Pay Award
Action for Departments
- Please advertise with the revised rates with immediate effect.
- The uplift will be implemented by central teams in the August payroll. No action is required by departments to amend rates, except in the case of payments which have been set up as the allowance “standby and call out pay cash” as these allowances will not be amended automatically. Departments should adjust these payments as detailed in the pay uplift notes as well as payments made to staff who are in receipt of an on-call and standby allowance calculated as an average of salaries.
- Note that the consolidated exceptional payment for staff paid against the casual pay spine ends from 1 August 2023 and as a result rates at spine points 9-29 on the hourly pay spine will slightly decrease from this date. Appointments commenced before 1 August may continue to use their current hourly rate for the duration of the assignment. All appointments commencing after 1 August should use the new casual pay spine.
Pay scales
PERS(22)04 |
Clinical consultants pay award |
2022 Pay award for all non-clinical staff | |
PERS(22)01 |
2022 Pay award for clinical staff below consultants |
PERS(21)01 |
Increase to Oxford Living Wage |
PERS(21)03 |
Clinical pay uplift 2021
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PERS(21)05 |
Non-clinical pay award 2021/22 |
PERS(21)06 |
2021 Salary increases for clinical consultants |
PERS(20)01 |
Clinical pay uplift 2020
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PERS(20)02 |
Pay awards and implementation of the Oxford Living Wage |
PERS(20)03 |
2020 pay uplift for clinical consultants |
PERS(19)07 | 2019 Salary increases for clinical academic and related staff |
PERS(19)06 | Revision of University salary scales 2019: all non-clinical staff |
PERS(19)04 | Recoding miscellaneous pay and the introduction of new allowances |
PERS(19)02 | Hours on payslips |
PERS(18)05 |
2018 Salary increases for clinical academic and related staff |
PERS(18)04 |
Revision of University salary scales 2018: all non-clinical staff |
PERS(18)01 |
The Living Wage: Change to Grade 1 and Grade 1A of the salary and grading structure |
Earlier circulars
If you need a copy of an earlier circular copies can be requested from reward@admin.ox.ac.uk