National minimum wages, 2025

The table shows gross nominal national minimum wages in monthly payments and expressed in euro. Data for each country are from January 2010 to January 2025, except for Germany and Cyprus (which adopted a statutory minimum wage in January 2015 and January 2023, respectively).

Methods of conversion

• Converted values; the year-on-year change is calculated using rates in national currencies.
• Rates for non-euro zone countries (Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Romania) were converted to euro using the exchange rate applicable at the end of the previous reference month. Conversions were also carried out for Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for periods prior their adoption of the euro.
• Rates for countries with more than 12 wage payments per year (Greece, Portugal,  Slovenia and Spain) were converted by dividing the annual sum of the minimum wage by 12 calendar months.
• Rates for countries where the minimum wage is defined as an hourly rate (Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands) were converted to monthly rates using the weekly working hours provided by Eurostat, corresponding to 36 hours for the Netherlands, 38 hours for Germany and 39 hours for Ireland.
• The rate for Malta, where the minimum wage is defined as a weekly rate, was converted to a monthly rate based on 4.33 weeks per calendar month.

Applicability

The data represent the minimum wage applicable on 1 January of the given reference year.

Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden are not included in this visualisation as they do not have a national minimum wage.