Minimum wages for the EU – January 2022

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  1. Made a [quick update](https://i.imgur.com/Fu1ggpA.jpg) adding the UK. Norway doesn’t have a minimum.

    **Note:** From April 2022, the UK will have the 2nd highest minimum wage in Europe at 1,856 Euros.

    It’s also worth pointing out that these gross figures can be misleading as once you apply tax deductables at different thresholds, factoring cost of living, it can create a very distorted view that’s difficult to compute as a standard of living in any European country compared to another.

  2. In Romania they take almost half of it after taxes.

    BG: Gross €332 / Net €282

    RO: Gross €515 / Net €308

    HU: Gross €542 / Net €372

    LV: Gross €500 / Net €426

    Serbia, €301 …has almost the same net income as Romania and it’s not even in the EU. Congrats!

  3. The EU will never be equal until a McDonalds worker in Poland makes as much as a McDonalds worker in Germany. It cannot be that Eastern Europe just serves as a source of cheap labor for the West.

  4. For the countries with no minimum wage, how much do people make, say, working at McDonald’s full time?

  5. I don’t get where the number for germany comes from? I can think of a lot of jobs where you wouldn’t even make half of that.

    Is this just the minimum wage * 160 hours? If yes, that’s just stupid.

  6. In Austria there is no general minimum wage, but there are sector-specific minimum wages, which are usually above 1700€ per month.

  7. USA (Maryland since wages vary by state)

    $12.50/hr x 40hr x 4.3 weeks = $2,150/month

    three sick days, No health care, retirement, unpaid holidays. Most minimum wage employees don’t get vacation pay.

  8. Portugal should surpass 1000€ in 3 years, according to government plans. To compare the evolution, in 2015 it was 565€.

  9. Italy’s “minimum wage” on paper would definitely be around 700 euros. There are lots of slavers here. They don’t care about your pension, all they care about is that you put in those be 12-14 hours of work, while usually working on a 4 hours contract. The money that are not registered don’t make up for anything.

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