Al 1° gennaio 2026, 22 paesi dell’UE su 27 avevano un salario minimo nazionale, tutti tranne Danimarca, Italia, Austria, Finlandia e Svezia. 8 paesi avevano salari minimi inferiori a 1.000 euro al mese: Bulgaria (620 euro), Lettonia (780 euro), Romania (795 euro), Ungheria (838 euro), Estonia (886 euro), Slovacchia (915 euro) e Repubblica Ceca (924 euro).
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260130-2
di nimicdoareu
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In 6 countries, minimum wages were above €1 500 per month: France (€1 823), Belgium (€2 112), the Netherlands (€2 295), Germany (€2 343), Ireland (€2 391) and Luxembourg (€2 704).
Minimum wage in Portugal is 920€, so it’s 9 countries… (where are they getting 1073€?)
Finland has no statutory minimum wage law; instead, minimum wages are determined by sector-specific collective agreements (TES) negotiated between trade unions and employers’ association.
Easy fix for Latvia 🙂 move employer tax to employee like Lithuania did.
Denmark uses collective agreements. A very low wage is ~ €3.000, around 2000 after tax. Denmark is an expensive country to live in.
That’s damn good **minimal** wages if you ask me
It never ceased to baffle me that so many people cheer for the ”permanently unemployable” class to keep growing. Because that’s what happens when you have a minimum wage and keep raising it.
No, it doesn’t mean ”oh well, I guess now we just pay everybody more”. It means ”oh well, now we have to fire every single person whose monetary productivity value is below XYZ and never ever hire such people again”.
If Latvia had emplyer’s contributions in gross then it would be ~964 euros. Im not sure why we still do it this way.
In Romania after tax is like 480 euros and food is more expensive than in Germany
In italy the minimum wage is set by collective agreements, like other countries on the “missing” list.
The problem is that not every profession has a collective agreement so not every job has a minimum wage, which is why a state mandated minimum wage would still be the preferred option.
By reading sutch words of populistic non-wisdom about Denmark, blown out on FB, I risk getting eye-tinnitus.
Let me enlighten you.
The reason why Denmark does not have minimum wages is the functioning treaty system of the unions – which are powerful. About 85 % of the wages are indexed by treaties. Interfering by introducing minimum wages would weaken the lower income group of employees.
The social security is huge. It’s one of the social most stable societies in Europe.