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HE single pay spine

The nationally agreed single pay spine covers the majority of HE institutions within the UK. Please check with your branch or regional office if you have any queries.

UCU is currently in dispute over the 2019-20 national settlement which would be effective from 1 August 2019.

Framework agreement single pay spine 2015-19
	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
Spine point	Salary from August 2015 Details	Salary from August 2016 Details	Salary from August 2017* Details	Salary from August 2018^ Details
1	14,323	14,767	-
2	14,599	15,052	15,417	15,842
3	14,953	15,356	15,721	16,146
4	15,258	15,670	16,035	16,460
5	15,632	15,976	16,341	16,766
6	16,017	16,289	16,654	17,079
7	16,357	16,618	16,983	17,408
8	16,776	16,961	17,326	17,751
9	17,209	17,399	17,764	18,189
10	17,703	17,898	18,263	18,688
11	18,211	18,412	18,777	19,202
12	18,734	18,940	19,305	19,730
13	19,274	19,485	19,850	20,275
14	19,828	20,046	20,411	20,836
15	20,400	20,624	20,989	21,414
16	20,989	21,220	21,581	22,017
17	21,605	21,843	22,214	22,659
18	22,249	22,494	22,876	23,334
19	22,912	23,164	23,557	24,029
20	23,620	23,879	24,285	24,771
21	24,298	24,565	24,983	25,482
22	25,023	25,298	25,728	26,243
23	25,768	26,052	26,495	27,025
24	26,537	26,829	27,285	27,830
25	27,328	27,629	28,098	28,660
26	28,143	28,452	28,936	29,515
27	28,982	29,301	29,799	30,395
28	29,848	30,175	30,688	31,302
29	30,738	31,076	31,604	32,236
30	31,655	32,004	32,548	33,199
31	32,600	32,958	33,518	34,189
32	33,574	33,943	34,520	35,211
33	34,575	34,956	35,550	36,261
34	35,609	36,001	36,613	37,345
35	36,672	37,075	37,706	38,460
36	37,768	38,183	38,833	39,609
37	38,896	39,324	39,992	40,792
38	40,082	40,523	41,212	42,036
39	41,255	41,709	42,418	43,267
40	42,488	42,955	43,685	44,559
41	43,758	44,240	44,992	45,892
42	45,066	45,562	46,336	47,263
43	46,414	46,924	47,722	48,677
44	47,801	48,327	49,149	50,132
45	49,230	49,772	50,618	51,630
46	50,702	51,260	52,132	53,174
47	52,219	52,793	53,691	54,765
48	53,780	54,372	55,297	56,403
49	55,389	55,998	56,950	58,089
50	57,047	57,674	58,655	59,828
51	58,754	59,400	60,410	61,618

Spine point values have been rounded, but are calculated on an unrounded basis from year-to-year.

*2017-18 settlement

The approach to bottom loading was to apply 1.7% or £365 whichever was the greatest. The 2017-18 pay settlement was presented as a set of rounded percentage increases to be applied to pay spine points 1 to 16.

^2018-19 settlement

Increases of 2.0% or £425 whichever is the greater.

Last updated: 16 September 2019

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