All London Underground staff will see their salaries increase slightly above the main rate of inflation next month, it can be revealed.
They will receive a 3.6 per cent pay increase from April as part of a three-year pay deal that could increase the wages of all 16,500 Tube workers by about 10 per cent by next year, compared with their salaries a year ago.
The latest rise also keeps Tube drivers on course to earn about £80,000 by the end of the decade.
The pay hike could have been even more generous if the latest inflation figures had taken into account the economic impact of Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
Fuel prices and the cost of mortgages have risen sharply in recent days but this happened after the February inflation rates were calculated.
The 3.6 per cent increase is more than the 3.3 per cent offered by the Government this week to more than a million council workers.
However, Tube staff will have to wait until July or August until their see their pay increase due to administrative delays in TfL updating its payroll systems. The pay increase will then be backdated to April.
The pay increase is the second part of a three-year deal that was agreed last November in the wake of a five-day Tube strike by the RMT union last September that unsuccessfully sought to reduce the typical 35-hour working week on the Underground.
Tube staff received a 3.4 per cent increase last year for the current 2025/26 financial year.
Under the deal, their 2026/27 pay rise is to be equal to the RPI rate of interest for February 2026. This was announced as 3.6 per cent earlier this week.
The rise for 2027/28 will be the equivalent of the February 2027 RPI rate of inflation plus 0.2 percentage points.
Last November, when the three-year pay deal was agreed, TfL described it as “fair and affordable” and said it would “provide certainty over pay for several years”.
Separately, talks between the RMT and TfL are continuing over the union’s opposition to the voluntary introduction of a four-day week for Tube drivers.
The RMT called off strikes planned for last week but confirmed walkouts proposed for April are still at risk of going ahead.
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