MAC publishes review of salary requirements
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has completed its review of salary requirements across the Skilled Worker, Health and Care Worker, Global Business Mobility and Scale-up routes, responding to a July 2025 commission which asked it to advise on the level and structure of salary thresholds, the use of discounts, the design of going rates and the frequency of uprating. The review is set against recent policy changes, including raising the skills threshold for Skilled Worker and Health and Care visas to RQF 6+ and the replacement of the Immigration Salary List with a Temporary Shortage List (TSL), as part of a wider strategy to reduce perceived over-reliance on migration and to align immigration with industrial and skills policy. A summary of the report is set out below.