The country with the highest minimum wage rate in Europe during the first half of 2025 was Luxembourg, with a minimum wage of 2638 euros. Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany were the countries with the next highest minimum wages, all above 2000 euros a month, while Albania, Bulgaria, and Montenegro had the lowest minimum wages in the same period.

Minimum wage statistics published by Eurostat refer to monthly national minimum wages. The data shown here apply to the situation on 1st of January each year. In some countries the basic national minimum wage is not fixed at a monthly rate but at an hourly or weekly rate. For these countries the hourly or weekly rates are converted into monthly rates. The national minimum wage is enforced by law, often after consultation with the social partners, or directly by national intersectoral agreement (this is the case in Belgium and Greece). The national minimum wage usually applies to all employees, or at least to a large majority of employees in the country. Minimum wages are gross amounts, that is, before deduction of income tax and social security contributions. Such deductions vary from country to country.

In the second half of 2024, the highest minimum wage in Central and Eastern European countries was recorded in Slovenia (1,254 euros). Poland and Lithuania followed. The lowest minimum wage was in Bulgaria at 477 euros per month.

This dataset provides values for MINIMUM WAGES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The WSI Minimum Wage Database is constructed by WSI, an institute from the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, and focusses on minimum wages across Europe and in some non-European countries. The database provides an interactive map on which the user can select a country and view its history of minimum wages. Users can also download a static map containing the most recent data and the complete WSI Minimum Wage Database in Excel of PDF format. The main topics discussed are: - minimum wages across Europe. The aim of the database is to provide a structured overview of minimum wages ‘at a glance’. From this overview, users can go more in depth and verify the history of minimum wages in the countries involved.

Slovenia, Estonia, and Poland had the highest net minimum wages among Central and Eastern European countries as of January 2024.

Poland recorded the highest purchasing power of statutory wages in Central and Eastern Europe, at ***** PPS euros. Slovenia and Lithuania followed Poland. The cost of living in most Central and Eastern European countries is below average compared to the rest of the European Union.

This dataset provides values for LIVING WAGE INDIVIDUAL reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The highest legal minimum wage in the Central and Eastern European countries was recorded in Slovenia (**** euros per hour). The lowest in Ukraine and Russia amounted to *** euros per hour and **** euros per hour, respectively.

This dataset provides values for MINIMUM WAGES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The national minimum wage per month in Spain increased steadily over the last years. The minimum monthly wage grew by about 89 percent from 2008 to 2024, with salaries increasing from 600 euros a month to 1,134 euros a month in 2023. In 2019, the Socialist government of Spain passed a decree by which the national minimum wage would be given a boost of 164 euros, therefore making it stand at 900 euros per month as of that year, the largest increase to date.

Salaries in Spain

Along with the monthly wage, the national minimum daily wage also grew consistently over the past years, with the gross minimum standing at 37.8 euros a day in 2024 relative to 20 euros a day in 2008. Annual wages in Spain have however not followed this trend and fluctuated greatly during the same period. The highest average wage registered in Spain took place in 2009, year in which the mean salary amounted to over 30,000 euros a year after a period of ongoing growth. Spanish salaries however initiated a downtrend that prompted the average worker to earn approximately 29,113 thousand euros a year in 2022.

Salaries in Europe

Iceland ranked as the European country that featured the highest salaries in 2022, with an average wage of approximately 79,473 euros a year. Luxembourg and Switzerland followed second and third, with average salaries of 78,000 and 73,000 a year, respectively. In terms of growth, Portugal ranked as the country that saw the lowest decrease in salaries in 2022 compared to the previous year, with a development of -0.2 percent more relative to 2021, during that year, no European country registered an increase in real wages.

This dataset provides values for MINIMUM WAGES IN ASIA reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The highest purchasing power (PPS) of statutory minimum wages among Central and Eastern European countries in 2023 was recorded in Poland and Slovenia, exceeding seven PPS considering living costs. On the other hand, the lowest PPS was noted in Russia and Moldova.

This paper proposes a framework to identify the effects of the minimum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wage in a developing country. I show how the discontinuity of the wage distribution around the minimum wage identifies the extent of noncompliance with the minimum wage policy, and how the conditional probability of sector given wage recovers the relationship between latent sector and wages. I apply the method in the PNAD, a nationwide representative Brazilian cross-sectional dataset for the years 2001-2009. The results indicate that the size of the informal sector is increased by around 39% compared to what would prevail in the absence of the minimum wage, an effect attributable to (i) unemployment effects of the minimum wage on the formal sector and (ii) movements of workers from the formal to the informal sector as a response to the policy.

Most countries in the world have country-level policies concerning their minimum wage-fixing machinery. These policies vary widely, and therefore it becomes important to have adequate classifications of these policies. This paper reviews databases that classify country-level policies for determining minimum wages. Several databases - we found twelve - classify countries according to their minimum wage-fixing mechanisms and the coverage of these mechanisms. The mechanisms indicate whether the minimum wages are set by Law, by Collective Bargaining or any policy in between, the coverage indicates whether the minimum wages cover the entire dependent labour force or only one or more sections within the labour force. The twelve databases vary with respect to the years covered, the countries covered and the characteristics coded. We restricted our analysis to the years 2011 to 2015. The number of countries covered in these databases range from 29 to 189, with 195 countries in total. The merged database reveals that countries are not classified similarly across databases. Between 75% and 93% of the countries apply a statutory minimum wage-fixing mechanism across years and databases. Less than one in ten countries relies solely on minimum wage setting by collective bargaining. In the EU28 plus Norway this percentage is relatively high, but in countries outside Europe it is far below 10%. Two ILO conventions refer to minimum wage-fixing mechanisms. Across years and databases roughly three in five countries that apply a statutory minimum wage-fixing mechanism have signed the oldest Convention (C26), whereas roughly one in three has done so with the most recent Convention (C131). Obviously, many more countries could have signed the Conventions. Only a few countries have signed the Conventions but do not have a statutory minimum wage-fixing mechanism. Among others a few EU28 countries rely solely on collective bargaining for minimum wage setting, and consider that as a national wide fixing mechanism. If countries apply a statutory wage-fixing mechanism, does the minimum wage then cover the entire dependent labour force? Globally, more than half of the countries with a statutory minimum wage apply differentiated minimum wages. Most frequently reported breakdowns are by industry or occupation. Countries with multiple minimum wage rates mimic collective bargaining, particularly when they break down the rates by industry or occupation. The aim of this paper is to generate a Minimum Wage Policies Database (MWPDB) from the merged dataset. Using a set of rules for generating data from the source databases, we indicate for almost half of the 195 countries the presence or absence of a statutory minimum wage for all five years from 2011 to 2015. For 16 countries no valid data is available for any year. Particularly for Europe and South America, MWPDB has satisfactory number of observations, whereas the opposite holds for the small islands in Oceania. The MWPDB results show that approximately nine in ten countries do apply a minimum wage policy, and that this is slightly increasing between 2011 to 2015.

In 2018 Latvia had the highest share of low-wage earners within its economy at almost 23.5 percent, when compared with other European countries. Sweden, on the other hand, had the lowest share of low-wage earners as a proportion of employees, at 3.61 percent. Low-wage earners are defined as those employees (excluding apprentices) earning at least two-thirds or less of the national median gross hourly earnings in that particular country.

These files contain the gross salaries of teachers with 15 years experience in US dollars (USD) for early childhood education (earlychildedu), primary (pry), lower secondary (lowsry) and upper secondary (uppsry).

The following columns are found in each file: — year: year — ocde_min: minimum wage in all available OECD data — ocde_max: minimum wage in all available OECD data — ocde_med: median wage in all available OECD data — ocde_moy: average salary in all available OECD data — histo_min: minimum wage among countries whose data are available throughout the history — histo_max: minimum wage among countries whose data are available throughout the history — histo_med: median wage among countries whose data are available throughout the history — histo_moy: average salary among countries whose data are available throughout the history — Aus, AUT, CHL, etc.: country codes

Source: https://data.oecd.org/fr/teachers/salaires-des-enseignants.htm

Luxembourg had the highest average annual wage in Europe in 2023, at approximately 89,700 U.S. dollars when adjusting for purchasing power parity (PPP). Greece, which had an average annual salary of less than 30,238 U.S dollars a year, had the lowest among the countries provided in this statistic.

This dataset provides values for LIVING WAGE FAMILY reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Slovenia recorded the highest minimum wage as nearly ** percent of the median salary of full-time workers among Central and Eastern European countries in 2023. Conversely, Latvia noted the lowest minimum wage at almost **** percent of the median wage.