The supermarket job that pays £24,180 per year with paid breaks

Finding well-paid employment amid the continued cost of living crisis is one of the best ways for workers to upgrade their personal finances. Finding the right place of work is not always easy, but for the more than one million people in the UK that work in supermarkets, wages have shot upwards in recent months.

Supermarkets have been in a wage race since the start of the year, some even boosting pay multiple times as employers try to attract more shop workers by raising the pay of some of the lowest. This comes in the context of the "largest ever" increase in the National Living Wage, which is getting a major 10 per cent bump to £11.44 from today.

This higher basic rate of pay will also include 21 and 22-year-olds for the first time. But one of the big supermarkets is set to pay considerably more than its competitors, possibly even enough to tempt people out of other industries with a good annual salary, paid lunch breaks, and free gym memberships - the German bargain chain Aldi.

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The supermarket has announced that all of its employees will be paid at least £12.40 per hour from June, which on a full-time contract would mean an annual salary of £24,180. Unlike most employers, Aldi will even pay their workers for their lunch breaks, which is worth about £900 per year to their typical staff member.

This pay rise for workers equates to an extra £79m spent on wages in just the first four months of this year, in which Aldi plans to expand massively across the country, hiring a further 5,500 people to stack the shelves, mop the floors, and