The Living Wage Foundation found the five worst places for pay in the UK are all in London.
by the Living Wage Foundation found that five boroughs in the capital were the country's worst areas in terms of the proportion of jobs not paying a "real living wage".
Every year it publishes a new rate for workers outside London and a higher rate inside London, to reflect the capital's higher cost of living. The report revealed that the area with the highest proportion of workers not paid a real living wage was Haringey, where almost a third of people were earning below it.Making up the rest of the top 10 were, in order: Hyndburn in Lancashire, Harrow, also in London, Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, East Lindsey in Lincolnshire, and Thanet in Kent.
The best-performing places, where just over 10% of workers do not receive the real living wage, were in the South East of England and Scotland.
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