Aldi is increasing its pay rates for around 7,000 warehouse workers across the UK from February 1, 2023. Following two pay increases for hourly-paid warehouse colleagues in 2022, this further rise means colleagues will be paid up to 20% more than at this time last year.
Most distribution centre roles are Warehouse Selectors and these colleagues will receive a new minimum rate of £13.18 an hour – up from £11.48 in January 2022. The move follows Aldi’s recent pay review for Store Assistants which came into effect this month, and saw Aldi offer starting pay of £11.00 an hour nationally, rising to £11.90, and £12.45 rising to £12.75, within the M25.
Aldi is also the only supermarket to offer paid breaks, which is worth an additional £871 a year for the average store colleague. The new rates for both store colleagues and warehouse workers exceed the Living Wage Foundation’s recommended real living wage of £10.90 an hour nationally.
