Overview

• Effective 1 September, Aldi store assistants earn £13.02 an hour nationally, rising to £13.95 with length of service, with London rates at £14.35 rising to £14.66.
• Aldi says roughly 28,000 hourly paid store colleagues will receive the increase, which the company describes as higher than initially planned.
• Lidl has implemented a £13 national starting rate, increasing to £13.95 with tenure, with London rates moving to £14.35 and up to £14.65 for longer-serving staff.
• Aldi describes this as its second store pay rise of 2025 and maintains it is the only retailer offering paid breaks, valued at about £1,425 a year for the average store worker.
• The discounters frame the pay moves as part of ongoing hiring and growth plans, with the new rates outpacing the recently uplifted National Living Wage of £12.21 for workers aged 21 and over.