Update on the 2025 to 2026 pay award

31 July 2025

The 2025/26 national pay agreement for Local Government Service employees, Chief Officers and Chief Executives has now been agreed.

Here is an outline of how the pay offer will increase Derbyshire pay scales:

• colleagues on grades 1-21 will receive an increase of 3.2% per annum.
• in addition, an increase of 3.2% on all flat-rate allowances, which would include payments such as standby, sleep-in and first aid.

The additional salary payment will be backdated to 1 April 2025 and you will receive any back pay you are due in the August 2025 payroll.