(01 February 2022) – In January 2022 the minimum wages in the EU Member States ranged from €332 per month in Bulgaria to €2 257 per month in Luxembourg.
The 21 EU Member States that have national minimum wages can be divided into three main groups based on their levels in euro.
In January 2022, 13 Member States, located in the east and the south of the EU, had gross minimum wages below €1 000 per month: Bulgaria (€332), Latvia (€500), Romania (€515), Hungary (€542), Croatia (€624), Slovakia (€646), Czechia (€652), Estonia (€654), Poland (€655), Lithuania (€730), Greece (€774), Malta (€792) and Portugal (€823).
In Slovenia (€1 074) and Spain (€1 126) minimum wages ranged just over €1 000 per month, while in the remaining six Member States, minimum wages were above €1 500 per month: France (€1 603), Germany (€1 621), Belgium (€1 658), the Netherlands (€1 725), Ireland (€1 775) and Luxembourg (€2 257).
For comparison, the federal minimum wage in the United States was €1 110 in January 2022.