Guideline hourly rates
These are the guideline rates in effect from 2010. Find out previous guideline rates for 1999–2009.
London grades
National grade 1
Covers the following areas:
- Aldershot, Farnham, Bournemouth (incl Poole)
- Birmingham Inner
- Bristol
- Cambridge City, Harlow
- Canterbury, Maidstone, Medway, Tunbridge Wells
- Cardiff (Inner)
- Chelmsford South, Essex, East Suffolk
- Fareham, Winchester
- Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Isle of Wight
- Kingston, Guildford, Reigate, Epsom
- Leeds Inner (within 2km of City Art Gallery)
- Lewes
- Liverpool, Birkenhead
- Manchester Central
- Newcastle – City Centre (within 2m of St Nicholas Cathedral)
- Norwich City
- Nottingham City
- Oxford, Thames Valley
- Southampton, Portsmouth
- Swindon, Basingstoke
- Watford
National grade 2
Covers the following areas:
- Bath, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Taunton, Yeovil
- Bury
- Chelmsford North, Cambridge County, Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds, Norfolk, Lowestoft
- Chester, North Wales
- Coventry, Rugby, Nuneaton, Stratford, Warwick
- Exeter, Plymouth
- Hull (City)
- Leeds Outer, Wakefield, Pontefract
- Leigh
- Lincoln
- Luton, Bedford, St Albans, Hitchin, Hertford
- Manchester Outer, Oldham, Bolton, Tameside
- Newcastle (other than City Centre)
- Nottingham, Derbyshire
- Sheffield, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
- Southport
- St Helens
- Stockport, Altrincham, Salford
- Swansea, Newport, Cardiff (Outer)
- Wigan
- Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Stourbridge
- York, Harrogate
National grade 3
Covers the following areas:
- Birmingham Outer
- Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley, Skipton
- Cumbria
- Devon, Cornwall
- Grimsby, Skegness
- Hull Outer
- Kidderminster
- Northampton, Leicester
- Preston, Lancaster, Blackpool, Chorley, Accrington, Burnley, Blackburn, Rawenstall, Nelson
- Scarborough, Ripon
- Stafford, Stoke, Tamworth
- Teesside
- Worcester, Hereford, Evesham, Redditch
- Shrewsbury, Telford, Ludlow, Oswestry
- South and West Wales
National grades: A–Z by area
