It seems like paying more than $11/hr would help reduce the labor shortage you are facing.
From my American coastal perspective, $11/hr sounds ridiculously low here and I know for a fact that most childcare workers are paid considerably more than that here. I have relatives who work under the table doing childcare so they don’t even have any minimum wage/labor protections and they still make more than that. I don’t perceive the cost of living in the UK as particularly less so I am confused how this can be justified.
e: I see now that you are talking about elder care but I feel like the rates would not be so dissimilar.
As a benchmark: CDPAP, a Medicare-funded program in the US that lets people be employed as caregivers for family, pays $18-20 an hour in much of the northeast.
From my American coastal perspective, $11/hr sounds ridiculously low here and I know for a fact that most childcare workers are paid considerably more than that here. I have relatives who work under the table doing childcare so they don’t even have any minimum wage/labor protections and they still make more than that. I don’t perceive the cost of living in the UK as particularly less so I am confused how this can be justified.
e: I see now that you are talking about elder care but I feel like the rates would not be so dissimilar.