Supermarket Lidl is hiring 1,200 more workers by the end of 2025 as it opens a new super warehouse in Luton.
The new hub is 1.2million sq ft in size and will be Lidl's largest building in the world.
The building will be the same size as 18 full-size football pitches or 20 St Paul's Cathedrals.
Once open it will supply food to 150 Lidl stores in London and surrounding counties.
The supermarket chain is hiring roles ranging from warehouse workers and managers to support staff in HR and payroll teams.
Hourly-paid staff will get £10.10 an hour, while managers earn up to £80,000 and get a company car.
Lidl opened 13 new stores in February, including Hounslow, Burton-Upon-Trent and Blairgowrie, hiring around 250 more staff.
Lidl GB chief executive Ryan McDonnell said: “This new distribution centre – the largest in any Lidl market globally – signifies our continued commitment to expansion across Great Britain and the creation of local jobs.
“Our competitive pay and benefits is already helping to attract new colleagues, and we’re looking forward to welcoming 1,200 new people to our workforce soon.”
In addition to the 1,200 warehouse staff, Lidl is hiring 3,000 more people across the UK.
McDonnell added: “We are shocked and saddened by the events unfolding in Ukraine. As an international business, we are donating €10million (£8.3million) in funds, food, textiles and hygiene products in the neighbouring countries to Ukraine to get essential products as quickly as possible to those displaced by the crisis."
Lidl raised its pay rate for new shop floor workers from £9.50 to £10.10 an hour outside London and from £10.85 to £11.30 in the capital from this month.
Longer-serving staff will see their pay rates also rise to £11.40 and £12.25 outside and inside London respectively, depending on length of service.
The announcement represents a pay rise of more than 6% for some of the 21,000 Lidl staff members set to receive a hike.
Staff members over the age of 23 will benefit from 60p per hour more than the National Living Wage.
The supermarket claimed it means Lidl is now the highest-paying grocer in the country.
Bosses said the extra £18million spend by the business on the new wages equates to £50million invested in hourly wage increases over the past five years.
It follows a £200 bonus to all frontline workers this year, alongside £150 gift vouchers for all staff in 2020 during the pandemic.
Earlier this week The Mirror reported that Aldi was the cheapest supermarket for a basket of essential goods, a following a price comparison.
A basket of 33 common items cost £51.35 at the German grocer, compared to £78.26 at the highest priced supermarket.
The same 33 goods would have cost shoppers £60.43 at Sainsbury's, £64.25 at Tesco, £61.92 at Morrisons and £78.26 at Waitrose, The Grocer comparison found.
The best priced Big Four supermarket was Asda, where a food shop would have cost consumers £58.33 on average last week.
