Fair Pay for Part 1 Graduates – Real Living Wage Increase for 2023/24
06/12/23
Over the past seven years, RSUA has sought to tackle the issue of fair pay for Part 1 graduates following some reports of unattractive and at times exploitative terms and conditions.
RSUA is pleased to report that now 92 practices are signed up to the RSUA Commitments to Fair Pay for Part 1 Graduates. The headline commitment is to pay a minimum of the Real Living Wage as set by the Living Wage Foundation. This recently increased from £10.90 an hour to £12 per hour. Employers should implement this increase by no later than 1 May 2024.
This month RSUA informed all of our student members of the list of employers who are signed up to the commitments.
The 92 organisations currently championing fair pay for part 1 graduates are:
| 2020 Architects | Hamill Architects | MMAS |
| AECOM | Hamilton Architects | Montgomery Irwin Architecture & Design |
| Alan Jones Architects | HBK Architects | Mullarkey Pedersen Architects |
| Alan Patterson Design LLP | Here Architects | Neil Mathews Architects |
| Alastair Coey Architects | HLM Architects | Newline Architects |
| Allan Curran Architects Ltd | HMD Architects | Nigel Jones Architects |
| Architects Knox & Markwell | HPA Architecture | Ostick +Williams |
| ARdMackel Architects | Hutcheson Irvine Partnership | Paul McAlister Architects |
| Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects | Iain Stewart Architect | Paul McGarvey Architect |
| ASI Architects Ltd | Invisible Architecture | Peter Drummond Architects |
| BCL architecture | Isherwood & Ellis | Philip Parker Architects |
| Bell Architects | John Kirkpatrick Architect | PHP Architects |
| Bernard Dinsmore Chartered Architect | Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects LLP | R.Robinson and Sons Ltd |
| BGA Architects | Kevin Cartin Architects Ltd | Rachel Bevan Architects |
| Blamphin + Associates | Like Architects | Rapport Architects |
| Bradley McClure Architects | Manor Architects | Raymond Goodwin Architects |
| Christopher McCauley Architect | Marshall McCann Architects | RMI Architects |
| Construction & Procurement Delivery (CPD) | McAdam Design | Robert Bleakney Architects |
| David Wilson Architect | McAdam Stewart Architects | Ronan Downey Chartered Architect |
| Doherty Architects | McCann Moore Architects | RPP Architects Limited |
| d-on Architects | McCartan Muldoon Architects | Samuel Stevenson & Sons |
| Farren Architects | McCreanor & Co. Architects | Shane Birney Architects |
| Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios | McGarry Moon | Studio Idir |
| FM Corr and Associates | McGirr Architects Ltd | The Boyd Partnership |
| Glenn Massey Architects | McGonigle McGrath | TODD Architects |
| GM Design Associates Ltd | McGurk Architects | TÓG Architecture |
| Gravity Architects | McLean & Forte | Tracey Architects |
| Gregory Architects | MHA Architects | WDR & RT Taggart |
| Hackett Architects | Micah T Jones | White Ink |
| Hall Black Douglas | Michael Whitley Architects | Whittaker and Watt Architects |
| Hall McKnight | Milligan Reside Larkin Architects Ltd |
These commitments are only of any value if they are honoured by all organisations that sign up to them. RSUA have reminded all Fair Pay organisations to ensure that they are meeting the commitments. Whilst the commitments are made voluntarily, having publicly made them any breach of the commitments could be considered a breach of Standard 1 of the ARB Architects Code of Conduct.
If you are aware of a Fair Pay employer failing to honour the commitments please report this directly to RSUA Director Ciarán Fox, confidentially, on ciaran@rsua.org.uk or 0772 500 9765.
