A minimum wage is the insignificant hourly, daily or monthly compensation that corporations may offcially pay to personnel or workers. Similarly, it is the bottom-most wage at which staffs may deal in their labor. The custom of miminum wage rule is often said to have first expanded in New Zealand and Australia about the spin of the century. Primarily it was applied in these two nationns as element of the process for the aversion and decision of industrial clashes. Amidst industrialized nations the policies approved with regard to minimum wages have shown apparent diversifications. The advent which has been pursued in United Kingdom and Ireland is that the lowest wage appliance has been operated in selected industries. In United Kingdom, although the relevant legislation has sustained a number of significant alterations since the approval of Trade Board Acts of 1918, the focus has persisted to be on offering lowest wage legislation in those manufacturing where effectual trade union agency is wanting and wages are deemed to be insufficiently or aggreably low. The study intends to discuss minimum wage regulation in United Kingdom and compare that with respect to United States. Economists are enthralled by lowest wage since there are well-built hypothetical predictions about the course of the result of the lowest wage on employment, and moderately extensively acknowledged techniques to guess the size of that effect. In 1978, the earnings council scheme of United Kingdom enclosed approximately 3 million personnel in 41 dissimilar trades. Pay boards with identical purposes enclosed concerning 400,000 personnel in agriculture. Even though the composition of manufacturing exaggerated has altered fairly there has not been any marked augment in the whole number of personnel affected given that the finish of the Second World War. In whole in relation to one-sixth of total workers in the nation are covered by lowest wages. Although the universal lowest wage schemes of industrialized nations show substantial diversity, they do have two significant rudiments in general. The first is their sustained application. Once recognized, these arrangements have usually been upheld and vigorously administered. The rates set are adjusted on a relatively usual basis. The other significant general element is that in these nations lowest wage setting up is observed as a important but on the whole additional method of pay regulation, the major technique being communal bargaining. The federal lowest wage augmented to $3.35 for each hour in January 1981 and stayed frozen all through the 1980s. Official statements of the objectives of lowest wage setting up often stress its application in guaranteeing that income earners obtain what at an exacting time and situation are believed to be upright wages. Simultaneously, a host of other connected purposes are pursued. Those most often talked about are the removal of sweating or misuse, the conservation of purchasing authority, the lessening of poverty, the elimination of unjust competition, the guaranteeing of equivalent pay for equivalent work, the avoidance of industrial clash, as well as the endorsement of economic development and stability.