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Costs of an apprenticeship
Find out more about the costs and the incentives available.
Like all employees, there are financial implications involved in hiring an apprentice.
Employers will need to pay apprentices a salary (to be determined by the employer but must be at least the national minimum wage) throughout the four-year programme, as well as costs of travel to their training provider and match any other employee benefits such as National Insurance contributions, holiday allowance and pensions.
However, there are also some generous incentives that could make hiring an apprentice a sound investment. The Apprenticeship Levy can be used by employers to pay up to 95% of the course fees to the academic provider, while additional payments of £1,000 are available from the Government for the hiring of each new apprentice subject to some conditions such as age.
In addition, if an apprentice is under the age of 25 when starting the apprenticeship, and has previously been in local authority care, they also may be eligible for a bursary payment.
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"The new insight and innovation our apprentices bring to our working lives is not to be underestimated. Their enthusiasm to get stuck in, for example some of the research tasks, monitoring, data gathering and public health projects which we don’t as a rule get time to do really adds value to our work."
Ruth Rhodes, Team Leader of Commercial Services, Wakefield Council
Setting up an apprenticeship
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Apprenticeship toolkit
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