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Minimum wage

Eurostat · 1999 to 2026

A street price means little without a wage beside it. Eurostat publishes the national gross minimum wage for a month of full-time work, in euros, as it stood each January.[1] In 2026 it is highest in Luxembourg, at about €2,700, Ireland and Germany, and lowest in Ukraine, Moldova and Albania; 31 countries have a figure.

Countries without a national minimum wage, such as Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden, are left out.[1] The chart of work for a gram divides the street price of cannabis by the wage, to show how many minutes of work a gram costs; a fine for possession, given in each profile’s penalties, can be read the same way.

Published by
Eurostat — Monthly minimum wages, bi-annual data (earn_mw_cur), in euros
Data
Eurostat API (JSON)
File here
eurostat-minimum-wages.csv
See also
The interactive map · The chart · The files and their checksums
of 220 places covered
31
years in the file
1999–2026
the median country
1,011
places with several years
31

Minimum wage (Europe), on the map

The stronger the blue, the higher the monthly minimum wage. Countries without one, or outside Eurostat's table, are hatched. Select a country for its profile.

Under €500€500–900€900–1,300€1,300–1,800€1,800 or moreNo national minimum wage reported to Eurostat

Eurostat, earn_mw_cur, January figures. Used on the Charts page to price a gram of cannabis in minutes of work. Not part of the score.

Highest · Minimum wage (Europe)

  1. Luxembourg2,7042026
  2. Ireland2,3912026
  3. Germany2,3432026

Lowest · Minimum wage (Europe)

  1. Ukraine1732026
  2. Moldova3192026
  3. Albania5172026

Country by country

Each place's latest figure, as on its profile. Select a heading to sort.

Further figures
AlbaniaEurope€517a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
BelgiumEurope€2,112a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
BulgariaEurope€620a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
CroatiaEurope€1,050a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
CyprusEurope€1,088a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
CzechiaEurope€924a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
EstoniaEurope€886a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
FranceEurope€1,823a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
GermanyEurope€2,343a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
GreeceEurope€1,027a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
HungaryEurope€838a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
IrelandEurope€2,391a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
LatviaEurope€780a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
LithuaniaEurope€1,153a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
LuxembourgEurope€2,704a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
MaltaEurope€994a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
MoldovaEurope€319a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
MontenegroEurope€670a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
NetherlandsEurope€2,295a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
North MacedoniaEurope€586a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
PolandEurope€1,139a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
PortugalEurope€1,073a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
RomaniaEurope€795a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
SerbiaEurope€744a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
SlovakiaEurope€915a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
SloveniaEurope€1,482a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
SpainEurope€1,425a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
TürkiyeAsia€654a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
UkraineEurope€173a monthgross, full time · January 20262026
United KingdomEurope€1,599a monthgross, full time · January 20202020
United StatesNorth America€1,070a monthgross, full time · January 20262026

What is counted, and how the file was made

The national gross minimum wage for a month of full-time work, in euros, as it stood in January of each year. Countries without a national minimum wage, such as Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden, have no figure.

Downloaded on 22 October 2026 by scripts/fetch-open-data.py (minwage), which keeps the January figure of each year.

The file belongs to Eurostat and keeps its terms; cite the publisher when you use it.

References

  1. Eurostat — Monthly minimum wages (earn_mw_cur)
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