The multiple today (April 13) announced the launch of a new package of benefits for its team members to “help colleagues manage the rising of cost of living”.

The benefits, which will support employees financially as well as their physical and mental wellbeing, will be rolled out to all team members across the UK throughout 2023, it said.

Superdrug has partnered with financial wellbeing app Wagestream to enable employees to “track their shifts and earnings in real time”, it added.

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The app will also help employees with budgeting, encourage them to save for the future and give them the choice of when to get paid via the app’s flexible pay feature, it said.

Staff will also be able to use Aviva’s new Digicare App to access free digital GP, mental health and nutritional consultations as well as second medical opinions and an annual health check, the multiple added.

The Digicare App, which will launch before summer, provides guidance and support to help detect, manager and prevent physical and mental health problems, it said.

Staff discounts

And the company is building on existing staff discounts to “further support with everyday living costs”, it added.

The multiple will offer:

• team members 40% off Superdrug own brand and exclusive products and 20% off branded products four times a year, on top of an existing staff discount of 30% and 10% respectively

• a 30% discount across Superdrug own brand items four times a year for “family and friends”

• 50% off Superdrug mobile sim plans for team members, as well as other discounts on weekly shops or family days out via Superdrug’s Benefit Hub discount portal

• a 30% employee discount with Superdrug’s Health Clinics across “a wide range of vaccines”.

Amy Davies, people director at Superdrug’s parent company A.S.Watson Health and Beauty UK, stressed the importance of team members’ “health and happiness”.

“We appreciate our team members are individuals with differing needs and so we try to offer a wide range of benefits to help everyone be the best versions of themselves,” she said.

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And she added that the multiple’s aim is to “attract talent early and nurture career progression within our businesses, through competitive salaries, training and development opportunities and best in industry benefits”.

It comes after the company last month announced an 11% uplift in newly qualified pharmacist pay from £45,000 to £50,000 per year.

And Superdrug’s latest gender pay gap report this week revealed that the multiple has also improved its median hourly pay gap from 7.7% in 2021/2022 down to 6.7% in 2022/2023, with women earning 93p for every £1 earned by their male counterparts.

The multiple has over 790 stores across the UK and Ireland.