Our research

Read our latest publications and research

| Klervi Mignon

From Good Work to Good Health: Employers' Role in the Health of the UK Workforce

This research project explores how employer practices can support workers’ health. We know that good health, as well as being intrinsically good, is closely related to financial security. We…

| Abi Rose

Worth the wait: Worker attitudes towards workplace pensions

This research, supported by the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement, explores workers’ retirement expectations and their attitudes towards their workplace pensions. With high living…

| Klervi Mignon

Employee Jobs Below the Real Living Wage 2025

This is the Living Wage Foundation’s 14th annual report on the scale of low pay in the UK, based on ONS data from 2025. 

Our research shows that in 2025, 14.6 per cent of…

| Professor David Nash and Joshua Cottell

The Economic Impact of the Living Wage

Today, 4.4 million jobs are paid less than the real Living Wage. In research led by Cardiff Business School, we investigate the knock-on effects if half of those jobs were given a pay rise to the…

| Nye Cominetti and Louise Murphy

Calculating the Real Living Wage for London and the rest of the UK: 2025

This report sets out how the 2025-26 real Living Wage rates in UK and London are calculated by the Resolution Foundation, and overseen by the Living Wage Commission, on behalf of the Living Wage…

| Abi Rose

Life on Low Pay 2025: The impact of low wages on UK workers

UK poverty rates are higher now than at any point in the twenty-first century, and the poorest households continue to be the hardest hit. Our seventh poll asking what life is like for the UK’s low…

Case studies

Find out more about how employers have implemented the Living Wage, Living Hours and what it's meant for their business.