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Payroll and Workforce Costs

• Care Worker Pay Rates 2026-27: The Employer's Cost Reference

  Statutory pay floors, employer NIC, holiday accrual and mileage for care employers in 2026-27. The rates reference every care provider needs.

• Sleep-in Pay and Travel Time: What Care Employers Must Pay Under NMW

  After Mencap 2021, only awake-for-work time counts for sleep-in NMW. Inter-call travel must always be paid. Worked example + April 2026 NLW rates.

• Sponsoring Care Workers: The True Employer Cost (And How to Model It)

  Sponsor licence, certificate of sponsorship, skills charge and employer NIC: modelling the real per-head cost of sponsoring overseas care workers.