List of minimum wages by country
The list below gives the official minimum wage rates in 197 countries and territories: 192 United Nations member states (does not include South Sudan, which gained independence in July 2011), plus the Republic of China (Taiwan), Northern Cyprus, Hong Kong, Kosovo and Western Sahara. Some countries are more effective than others at enforcing these regulations, so that the effective minimum wage may be lower than the official one. Some countries may have a very complicated minimum wage system, for example, India has more than 1200 minimum wage rates.[1]
The minimum wages given refer to a gross amount, i.e. before deduction of taxes and social security contributions, which vary from one country to another. Also excluded from calculations are regulated paid days off, including public holidays, sick pay and annual leave.
For the sake of comparison, an "annual wage" column is provided in international dollars, a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power that the U.S. dollar had in the United States in 2011. For calculating the annual wage, the lowest general minimum wage was used.
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Minimum wages by country [edit]
Note: To convert the gross annual wage to a different currency, go to [6], locate your desired currency's country of origin and then multiply the number next to the country's name by the annual gross wage in this article's table. This is necessary, because the annual wages are in international dollars, not market U.S. dollars. Note, however, that the purchasing power used here is for GDP and may differ from a private consumer purchasing power.
| Country | Minimum wage | Annual (US$)[2] |
Annual PPP (Intl.$)[3] |
Length of standard workweek (hours) | Hourly (US$)[4] |
Hourly (Intl$)[5] |
% of 2011 GDP per capita[6][7] |
Effective
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| 5,000 Afghani per month for government workers. No minimum set for private sector workers, but labor law prevents paying private sector workers less than government workers. Informal sector day workers are unprotected[8]. | US$1,178 |
Int$2,040 |
40 | US$0.57 |
Int$0.98 |
213.2% | 2012[citation needed]
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| 21,000 Albanian lekë per month, nationally. The law establishes a 40-hour workweek, but the actual workweek is typically set by individual or collective-bargaining agreement.[8] | US$2,329 |
Int$4,839 |
40 | US$1.12 |
Int$2.33 |
61.7% | 1 July 2011[9].
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| 18,000 Algerian dinars per month, nationally[8] | US$2,786 |
Int$3,954 |
40 | US$1.34 |
Int$1.9 |
54% | January 2012[10] | |
| €962 ($1,233) per month, €5.55 ($7.12) per hour[11] | 14,269 | 13,269[citation needed] | 40[8] | 6.86 | January 1, 2013[11] | |||
| 10,900 kwanza ($115) per month[8] | 1,371 | 1,574 | .66 | 27 | 2011 | |||
| EC$7.50 ($2.78) per hour[8] | 5,778 | 10,286[12] | 2.78 | 56 | 2012 | |||
| 2,875 Argentine pesos per month for up to 200 hours; paid thirteen times a year[13][14] | 8,232 | 14,543 | 3.96 | 83 | February 1, 2013 | |||
| 35,000 Armenian dram ($86.20) per month[8] | 1,045 | 1,834 | .50 | 32 | 2012 | |||
| A$15.96 ($16.45) per hour, A$606.40 ($625) per week; Year 1–4 of apprenticeship starting at A$10.22 ($10.54) per hour and building to A$17.65 ($18.20) per hour. Set federally by Fair Work Australia.[15] Although, the actual minimum wage could be as much as 50% lower depending on employee age. For example, the minimum wage for a 17 year old, part-time store clerk from WA would be A$9.22. | 32,508 | 20,213 | 16.45 | 51 | July 1, 2012 | |||
| None; instead, nationwide collective bargaining agreements set minimum wages by job classification for each industry and provide for a minimum wage of €1,000 per month—Wages where no such collective agreements exist, such as for domestic workers, janitorial staff, and au pairs, are regulated in pertinent law and are generally lower than those covered by collective bargaining.[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 93.50 Azerbaijani manat ($117) per month[8] | 1,420 | 2,078 | .68 | 21 | 2012 | |||
| B$4.45 ($4.45) per hour, B$35 ($35) per day, and B$150 ($150) per week[8] | 7,800 | 11,143 | 4.45 | 35 | 2012 | |||
| None; 300 BHD ($800) for the public sector workers (only applies to Bahraini nationals)[8]> | 2012 | |||||||
| 1,500 taka ($19) per month for all economic sectors not covered by industry-specific wages; in the garment industry the minimum wage is 3,000 taka ($37) per month. The minimum wage is set nationally every five years by the National Minimum Wage Board in a tripartite forum industry by industry.[8] | 220 | 604 | .11 | 34 | 2012 | |||
| BDS$6.25 ($3.13) per hour for household domestics and shop assistants; the Ministry of Labor recommends all other sectors use this as the de facto minimum wage[8] | 6,500 | 7,647[12] | 3.13 | 37 | 2012 | |||
| 8,340 Belarusian rubles per hour and 1,395,000 Belarusian rubles per month[13] | 2,008 | 8,636 | .97 | 58 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| €1,501.82 ($1,925) per month, €9.12 ($11.69) per hour for workers 21 years of age and over; €1,541.67 ($1,977) per month for workers 21 and a half years of age, with six months of service; €1,559.38 ($1,999) per month for workers 22 years of age, with 12 months of service; coupled with extensive social benefits[16][17] | 23,100 | 20,715[18] | 11.69 | 53 | December 1, 2012 | |||
| BZ$3.30 ($1.65) per hour[8][19] | 3,432 | 5,946[12] | 1.65 | 89 | 2012 | |||
| 31,625 CFA francs per month; the government set minimum wage scales for a number of occupations[13][20] | 743 | 1,622 | .36 | 100 | March 1, 2009 | |||
| 3,000 Bhutanese ngultrum ($67) per month[8] | 674 | 1,922 | .32 | 33 | 2012 | |||
| 1000 Bolivian bolivianos ($144) per month[8][21] | 1,737 | 3,028 | .83 | 59 | 2012 | |||
| 320 convertible marks ($216) per month in Republika Srpska; 357 ($241) convertible marks per month in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina[8] | 2,526 | 5,120 | 1.21 | 56 | 2012 | |||
| 3.8 Botswana pula ($0.58) an hour for most full-time labor in the private sector[22] | 1,387 | 2,963[23] | .58 | 20 | 2009 | |||
| R$678.00 per month[24] | 4,172 | 4,495 | 2.01 | 39 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 310 Bulgarian lev($204 or €158.50) per month, 1.79 lev ($1.18) per hour[17][25] | 2,447 | 5,471 | 1.18 | 37 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 30,684 CFA francs ($61) per month[8] | 721 | 1,690 | .35 | 130 | 2012 | |||
| 160 Burundian francs per day for unskilled workers; in practice, some employers voluntarily pay their unskilled laborers a minimum of 1,500 Burundian francs per day[20][22] | 2011 | |||||||
| None; US$75 per month, plus a $5 healthcare allowance, for the garment sector[8][13][26] | May 1, 2013 | |||||||
| 28,246 CFA francs ($56) per month[8] | 664 | 1,345 | .32 | 57 | 2012 | |||
| Set by each province and territory; ranges from C$9.75 to C$11.00 per hour (see List of minimum wages in Canada)[13][27] | 20,280 | 16,654 | 9.75 | 41 | 2013 | |||
| None; in the public sector 12,000 Cape Verdean escudos per month for an entry‑level worker[28][29] | 2011 | |||||||
| Set in the public sector by decree and varies by sector and by kind of work; for example, approximately 8,500 CFA francs ($17) per month for agricultural workers; approximately 26,000 CFA francs ($51) per month for government workers.[28] | 216 | 358 | .10 | 44 | 2011 | |||
| 60,000 CFA francs ($120) per month[8] | 1,410 | 1,316 | .68 | 87 | 2012 | |||
| 193,000 Chilean pesos per month for workers aged 18–65; 144,079 pesos for workers younger than 18 and older than 65; and 124,497 pesos for 'non remunerative' purposes[30] | 4,761 | 6,116 | 2.29 | 35 | July 1, 2012 | |||
| Set locally, ranges from 870 RMB ($138) per month in Jiangxia Province to 1,500 RMB ($238) per month in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province (see List of minimum wages in People's Republic of China)[31][32] | 1,654 | 2,148 | .80 | 26 | 2013 | |||
| 589,500 Colombian pesos per month plus 70,500 pesos per month for transportation allowance for total of 660,000 pesos per month[13][33] | 4,408 | 5,409 | 2.12 | 54 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 55,000 Comorian francs ($150) per month[8] | 1,724 | 1,428 | .83 | 129 | 2012 | |||
| 1,680 Congolese francs ($1.83) per day[8] | 474 | 767 | .23 | 206 | 2012 | |||
| 54,000 CFA francs ($109) per month in the formal sector[8] | 1,269 | 1,718 | .61 | 39 | 2012 | |||
| Ranging from 139,000 Costa Rican colones ($278) per month for unskilled employees to 514,000 colones for university graduates; set biannually by the National Wage Council[8] | 3,317 | 8,014 | 1.59 | 67 | 2012 | |||
| Varies by occupation, with the lowest set to 36,000 CFA franc ($72) per month for the industrial sector; a slightly higher minimum wage rate is applied for construction workers[8] | 846 | 1,395 | .41 | 78 | 2012 | |||
| 2,814 Croatian kuna ($481) per month[34] | 5,772 | 8,681 | 2.78 | 45 | June 1, 2012 | |||
| 225 Cuban pesos ($9) per month; supplemented by the government with free education, subsidized medical care (daily pay is reduced by 40 percent after the third day of a hospital stay), housing, and some subsidized food[8] | 108 | 229[35] | .05 | 2[35] | 2011 | |||
| None; €870 per month for shop assistants, nurses' assistants, clerks, hairdressers, and nursery assistants; it rises to €924 after six months' employment[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 8,000 Czech korun ($409) per month, 48.10 korun ($2.46) per hour[36] | 4,903 | 6,906 | 2.46 | 26 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| None; instead, negotiated between unions and employer associations; the average minimum wage for all private and public sector collective bargaining agreements was 109 kroner ($19) per hour[8][22] | 2012 | |||||||
| None; canceled by the 2006 Labor Code for occupational categories, establishing that wages be set after common agreement between employers and employees[28] | 2012 | |||||||
| EC$4.00 ($1.50) per hour[8] | 3,081 | 7,172[12] | 1.50 | 54 | 2012 | |||
| 6,376 Dominican pesos ($167) per month in the FTZs and between 6,035 pesos ($158) and 9,400 pesos ($247) outside the FTZs, depending upon the size of the company; 5,117 pesos ($134) per month for the public sector; 175 pesos ($4.60) a day for farm workers who are covered by minimum wage regulations, based on a 10-hour day; 110 pesos ($2.88) per day for cane workers in the sugar industry[28] | 727 | 1,330 | .35 | 14 | 2011 | |||
| US$318 per month[37] | 3,816 | 7,338 | 1.83 | 85 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| None; for the public sector the minimum wage is LE 700 ($110) per month[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| Set sector by sector; for example, US$224.29 a month for retail employees; US$219.40 for industrial laborers; US$187.68 for apparel assembly workers; US$104.97 for agriculture industry workers[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 129,035 CFA franc ($260)[8] | 3,034 | 3,196 | 1.46 | 9 | 2012 | |||
| None; 500 Eritrean nakfa ($33) per month in the public sector[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| €320 per month[17] | 4,923 | 7,111 | 2.37 | 32 | 2013 | |||
| None; some government institutions and public enterprises set their own minimum wages: public sector employees, the largest group of wage earners, earned a monthly minimum wage of 420 birrbirr ($23); employees in the banking and insurance sector had a minimum monthly wage of 336 birr ($18)[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| None; US$2.65 per hour for employment with the national government; all states have a minimum hourly wage for government workers: $2.00 in Pohnpei, $1.25 in Chuuk, $1.42 in Kosrae, and $1.60 in Yap; $1.75 for private sector workers in Pohnpei[8]| | 2012 | |||||||
| None; set by the Wages Councils for certain sectors[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| None; however, the law requires all employers, including non-unionized ones, to pay minimum wages agreed to in collective bargaining agreements; almost all workers are covered under such arrangements.[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| €9.43 per hour; €1,430.22 per month[17][38] | 2,203 | 19,727[39] | 12.09 | 56 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 150,000 CFA francs ($302) per month; government workers received an additional monthly allowance of 20,000 CFA francs ($40) per child; government workers also received transportation, housing, and family benefits; the law does not mandate housing or family benefits for private sector workers[8] | 3,526 | 5,441 | 1.70 | 34 | 2012 | |||
| 50 dalasi ($1.47) per day for unskilled labor[8] | 405 | 1,578 | .19 | 87 | 2012 | |||
| 90 Georgian lari ($54) per month for private sector workers; 115 lari ($68) per month for public employees[8] | 651 | 1,394 | .31 | 26 | 2012 | |||
| None; except for construction workers, electrical workers, janitors, roofers, painters, and letter carriers. Minimum wage is often set by collective bargaining agreements in other sectors of the economy and enforceable by law[8]
However, the law states that paying a worker an "immoral wage" is illegal. There is no general consensus what constitutes "immoral" payment. One judge at a court in Krefeld, Germany, ruled that a cashier at a supermarket has to earn the equivalent of approximately 7USD per hour. The federal courts in Germany ruled that any wage lower than 75% of the average wage or salary for a specific occupation constitutes illegal payment. However, since there is no well defined legal minimum wage as of February 2013, courts are usually the ones who have the final say and will only rule for individual cases.[40] |
2012 | |||||||
| 5.24 Ghanaian cedis ($2.91) per day[8][41] | 757 | 917 | .36 | 49 | May 1, 2013 | |||
| €683.76 per month in 12 payments, €586 per month in 14 payments[17][42] | 10,519 | 11,557 | 5.06 | 45 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| Set by occupation; for example, the minimum wage for domestic workers, for example, was EC $800 ($296.30) monthly, while that for a security guard was EC $6.00 ($2.22) per hour[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 63.70 Guatemalan quetzales ($8.16) per day for agricultural work and nonagricultural work and 59.45 quetzales ($7.61) per day for work in garment factories[28] | 2,779 | 3,079 | 1.34 | 62 | 2011 | |||
| 19,030 CFA francs ($38) per month plus a bag of rice[8] | 447 | 956 | .22 | 77 | 2012 | |||
| The labor code allows the government to set a minimum hourly wage; however, the government has not exercised this provision nor does it promote a standard wage[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| G$37,657 ($186) per month[8] | 2,211 | 2,426 | 1.06 | 71 | 2012 | |||
| 200 Haitian gourdes ($5) per day[8] | 1,240 | 1,554 | .60 | 133 | 2012 | |||
| Minimum wages ranged from a low of 4,612 Honduran lempiras ($232) to 7,133 lempiras ($358). For instance, a company with one to 10 employees working in agriculture was required to pay at least 4,368 lempiras ($230) per month, while a company with more than 151 employees in the transportation industry was required to pay at least 6,533 lempiras ($345) per month.[28][8][43] | 2,928 | 3,749 | 1.41 | 93 | 2012 | |||
| HK$30 per hour (see Minimum wage in Hong Kong)[44] | 8,041 | 11,534 | 3.87 | 23 | May 1, 2013 | |||
| 98,000 Hungarian forint ($487) per month[45] | 5,224 | 9,022 | 2.51 | 42 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| None; minimum wages are negotiated in various collectively bargained agreements and applied automatically to all employees in those occupations, regardless of union membership; while the agreements can be either industry- or sector-wide, and in some cases firm-specific, the minimum wage levels are occupation-specific[8][17] | 2012 | |||||||
| Varied from 118 rupees ($2.18) per day in Bihar to 185 rupees ($3.40) per day in Haryana (with local cost of living allowance included). State governments set a separate minimum wage for agricultural workers[8] The minimum wages are set according to Minimum Wages Act, 1948.[46] | 574 | .28 | 2012 | |||||
| Established by provincial and district authorities, which vary by province, district, and sector; the lowest minimum wage was in the province of Central Java at rupiah 686,925 ($71) per month and the highest was in Jakarta at rupiah 2,244,600 ($232) per month.[8][47] | 878 | .42 | 2012 | |||||
| 3,897,000 Iranian rials ($318) per month; set annually for each industrial sector and region[8] | 3,841 | 9,374 | 1.85 | 81 | 2012 | |||
| Less than 12,000 Iraqi dinars ($10) per day for a skilled worker and less than 5,250 dinars ($4.50) per day for an unskilled worker[28] | 2011 | |||||||
| €1,461.85 per month and €8.65 euros ($11.09) per hour[17][48] | 22,490 | 20,884[49] | 11.09 | 50 | July 1, 2011 | |||
| 4,300 Israeli new shekel per month, 23.12 Israeli new shekel per hour[50] | 13,368 | 12,836[12] | 6.43 | 46 | October 1, 2012 | |||
| None; instead set through collective bargaining agreements on a sector-by-sector basis[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| J$5,000 ($56) per week[8] | 2,930 | 4,219 | 1.41 | 48 | 2012 | |||
| Ranges from 652 Japanese yen ($8.17) to 850 yen ($10.65) per hour; set on a prefectural and industry basis[51] | 16,992 | 12,702 | 8.17 | 37 | October 14, 2012 | |||
| 190 Jordanian dinars ($268) per month[8] | 3,211 | 3,214 | 1.54 | 54 | 2012 | |||
| 17,439 Kazakhstani tenge ($116) per month[8] | 1,403 | 1,510 | .67 | 12 | 2012 | |||
| Set by the government by location, age and skill level; the lowest urban minimum wage was 11,995 shillings ($139) per month, and the lowest agricultural minimum wage for unskilled employees was 4,854 shillings ($57) per month, excluding housing allowance[8][52][53] | 689 | 1,076 | .33 | 63 | May 1, 2013 | |||
| None; estimated by government authorities to be between A$1.60 ($1.66) to A$1.70 ($1.77) per hour[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 4,860 South Korean won per hour; reviewed annually[54][55] | 8,974 | 12,135[12] | 4.31 | 41 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| Averaging 5,000 - 10,000 North Korean won per day. roughly 2000 North Korean won is 1 US Dollar[29] | 2008 | |||||||
| €170 ($224) per month[8] | 2,615 | 2,019[56] | 1.26 | 88[56] | 2012 | |||
| 60 Kuwaiti dinars ($216) per month[8] | 2,571 | 2,250 | 1.24 | 4 | 2012 | |||
| 600 Kyrgyzstani som ($13) per month, nominally; used for administrative purpose[8] | 153 | 348 | .07 | 15 | 2012 | |||
| 626,000 Lao kip ($79) per month; additionally, employers were required to pay an 8,500-kip ($1) meal allowance per day. The minimum wage for civil servants and state enterprise employees was last increased to 500,000 kip ($63) per month[8][57] | 948 | 1,971 | .46 | 71 | 2012 | |||
| 200 Latvian lats ($364) per month, 1.203 lats ($2.19) per hour. Source[58] | 4,364 | 6,667 | 2.10 | 38 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 675,000 pounds ($450) per month[8] | 5,375 | 6,177 | 2.58 | 42 | 2012 | |||
| 1,029 maloti ($119) per month to 1,122 maloti ($130) per month; varied by sector[8] | 1,504 | 2,232 | .72 | 131 | 2012 | |||
| 15 Liberian dollars ($0.31) per hour not exceeding 8 hours per day, excluding benefits, for unskilled laborers; 5,600 LD ($114) per month for civil servants[8] | 424 | 675 | .31 | 115 | 2012 | |||
| 250 Libyan dinars ($200) per month; the government heavily subsidizes rent and utilities[8] | 2,459 | 4,054 | 1.18 | 24 | 2012 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 1000 Lithuanian litas ($371) per month, 6.06 litas ($2.25) per hour[59] | 4,461 | 7,362 | 2.25 | 36 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| €1,874.90 ($2,404) per month and €10.8335 ($13.89) per hour for unqualified workers over 18; increased by 20% for a qualified employee; decreased by 20% to 25% in the case of an adolescent worker.[17][60] | 28,845 | 24,192 | 13.89 | 27 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 8,050 Macedonian denars ($171) per month[8] | 2,017 | 5,271 | .97 | 47 | 2012 | |||
| 100,000 Malagasy ariary ($44) per month for non-agricultural workers; 101,000 ariary ($45) per month for agricultural workers[8] | 547 | 1,110 | .26 | 115 | 2012 | |||
| MK 317 ($1.02) per day[8] | 331 | 724 | .16 | 81 | 2012 | |||
| RM900 ($294) per month on the peninsula, and RM800 ($261) per month for the states of Sabah, Sarawak, and Labuan[8][61] | 3,107 | 1.49 | January 1, 2013 | |||||
| None; 3,100 Maldivian rufiyaa ($242) per month in the government sector[28] | 2011 | |||||||
| 28,465 CFA francs ($57), supplemented by a required package of benefits, including social security and health care[8] | 669 | 1,181 | .32 | 108 | 2012 | |||
| €702.82 ($901) per month, €162.19 ($208) per week; combined with an annual mandatory bonus of €270.20 ($346) and a €242.26 ($311) annual cost of living increase, automatically adjusted for inflation[28][62][63] | 10,813 | 15,060 | 5.20 | 55 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| US$2.00 per hour for government and private sector employees[8] | 4,160 | 2.00 | 2012 | |||||
| 30,000 Mauritanian ouguiya ($100) per month for adults[8] | 1,214 | 2,842 | .58 | 111 | 2012 | |||
| 607 Mauritian rupees ($20) per week for an unskilled worker in the Export Processing Zone(EPZ); 794 rupees ($26) per week for an unskilled factory worker outside the EPZ; set by the government by sector, and increased each year based on the inflation rate[8] | 1,050 | 1,811 | .50 | 13 | 2012 | |||
| 64.76 Mexican pesos ($4.92) per day for Zone A and 61.38 pesos ($4.66) per day for Zone B[64] | 1,212 | 2,253 | .58 | 15 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 1300 Moldovan lei ($108) in the private sector; 600 lei ($50) per month in the public sector[8][65] | 595 | 1,927 | .29 | 57 | 2012 | |||
| €1,593.67 per month and €9.43 per hour (same as the French minimum wage), plus a 5% adjustment[66][67] | 24,518 | 21,982 | 12.09 | January 1, 2013 | ||||
| 140,400 Mongolian tögrög ($100) per month[8] | 1,241 | 2,018 | .60 | 43 | 2012 | |||
| €147.50 ($195) per month[8] | 2,269 | 4,538 | 1.09 | 34 | 2012 | |||
| 97 Moroccan dirhams ($11.50) per day in the industrialized sector, 63 dirhams ($7.50) per day for agricultural workers[8] | 1,898 | 2,735 | .91 | 59 | 2012 | |||
| Set for nine different economic sectors; ranges from 2,300 Mozambican meticias ($78) a month in the agricultural sector to 6,171 meticias ($208) a month in the financial sector[8][13] | 973 | .47 | March 1, 2012 | |||||
| None; 15,000 Myanma kyat ($110) per month for salaried public employees; 2,000 kyat ($4.44) per day for day laborers, supplemented by various subsidies and allowances[28] | 2011 | |||||||
| None; the mining, construction, security and agricultural sectors set basic levels of pay through collective bargaining[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| None; there is a graduated salary system for public service officers and employees; none for private-sector workers[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 6,200 Nepalese rupees ($71) per month for unskilled labor; 12,000 NRS for semi-skilled labor; 14,500 NRS for skilled labor; 18,000 or more NRS for highly skilled labor[8][29] | 873 | 2,074 | .42 | 166 | 2012 | |||
| €1,469.40 per month, €333.85 per week, €66.77 per day, and €8.4775 per hour for persons 23 and older; between 30-85% of this amount for persons aged 15–22[68][69] | 22,606 | 20,991 | 10.87 | 49 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| NZ$13.75 per hour for workers 18 years old or older, and NZ$11 per hour for those aged 16 or 17 or in training; there is no statutory minimum wage for employees who are under 16 years old[70] | 23,252 | 18,693[12] | 11.18 | 62 | April 1, 2013 | |||
| Set for nine different economic sectors; ranges from 2,273.80 Nicaraguan córdobas per month in the agricultural sector to 5,161.22 córdobas per month in the financial sector[13] | 1,159 | 2,921 | .56 | 77 | January 1, 2012 | |||
| 30,047 CFA francs ($60) per month[8][13] | 706 | 1,377 | .34 | 204 | August 17, 2012 | |||
| 18,000 naira per month ($115)[8] | 1,377 | 2,354 | .66 | 93 | 2012 | |||
| None; wages normally fall within a national scale negotiated by labor, employers, and local governments[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 225 Omani rials ($592) per month plus allowances of 100 rials ($263) per month for citizens; does not apply to foreign workers[8][71] | 10,262 | 7,059 | 4.93 | 25 | July 1, 2013 | |||
| 8,000 Pakistani rupees ($82) per month[8][20] | 1,028 | 2,260 | .49 | 82 | 2012 | |||
| US$2.50 per hour; does not include foreign workers[8] | 5,200 | 8,966[12][72] | 2.50 | 65 | 2012 | |||
| 1.2222 to 2.3636 balboas ($1.2222 to $2.3636) per hour, depending on region and sector. Food and the use of housing facilities were considered part of the salary for some workers, such as domestic and agricultural workers. Salaries for domestic workers ranged from 175 to 200 balboas ($175 to $200) per month. The agricultural and construction sectors received the lowest and highest minimum wages, respectively.[8][73] | 2,542 | 11,700 | 1.22 | 75 | 2012 | |||
| 100.80 Papua New Guinean kina ($40) per week[8] | 2,520 | 3,216 | 1.21 | 120 | 2012 | |||
| 1,658,232 Paraguayan guaraníes ($375) per month; The law discriminates against domestic workers, who are legally entitled to only 40 percent of the minimum wage. The law mandates that housing and food be counted towards domestic worker’s salary.[8][13][74] | 4,497 | 7,210 | 2.16 | 131 | 2012 | |||
| 750 Peruvian nuevos soles ($294) per month[8][13] | 3,409 | 5,555 | 1.64 | 54 | June 1, 2012 | |||
| 205 pesos ($4.85) per day in nonplantation agricultural sector in the Ilocos Region to 456 ($10.80) pesos per day in the nonagricultural sector in the National Capital Region.[75] | 1,262 | 2,492 | .61 | 48 | July 25, 2012 | |||
| 1,600 PLN (€384) per month[76] | 5,890 | 10,213 | 2.83 | 48 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| €565.83 ($725) per month in 12 payments, €485 ($621) per month in 14 payments; for full-time workers, rural workers, and domestic employees ages 18 and older[17] | 8,705 | 10,778[77] | 4.19 | 42 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| None; the labor law provides the Emir with authority to set a minimum wage, but he did not do so[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 750 RON Romanian lei (€171) per month for a full-time schedule of 168.667 hours per month[78][79]] | 2,594 | 5,325 | 1.28 | 35 | February 1, 2013 | |||
| 4,611 rubles ($152) per month[8] | 1,794 | 3,057 | .86 | 14 | 2012 | |||
| None; ranges from 500 to 1,000 Rwandan francs ($0.83 to $1.66) per day in the tea industry and 1500 to 5000 francs ($2.50 to $8.30) per day in the construction industry[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| EC$8.00 ($3.00) per hour[8] | 6,163 | 8,078[12] | 3.00 | 47 | 2012 | |||
| Minimum wage for some sectors; EC$300 ($111) per month for office clerks; EC$200 ($74) for shop assistants; EC$160 ($59) for messengers[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| EC$56 ($20.74) per day for agriculture workers (shelter not provided); EC$40 ($14.81) per day for industrial workers[8] | 3,852 | 6,541[12] | 1.85 | 61 | 2012 | |||
| WST$2.00 ($0.89) per hour for the private sector; WST$2.65 ($1.18) for the public sector[8] | 1,817 | 2,261[12] | .87 | 51 | 2012 | |||
| €8.80 ($11.28) per hour[28] | 22,000 | 21,450[80][81] | 11.28 | 37[81] | 2011 | |||
| None; 750,000 São Tomé and Príncipe dobras ($40) per month for civil servants[28] | 2011 | |||||||
| 3,000 Saudi riyals ($800) per month; does not apply to foreign workers[8] | 9,600 | 4.62 | 2012 | |||||
| 209.10 CFA francs ($0.42) per hour for general workers and 183 CFA francs ($0.37) per hour for agricultural workers[8][13] | 746 | 1,620[12] | .36 | 82 | 2012 | |||
| 21,000 dinars ($244) per month[8] | 2,865 | 5,469 | 1.38 | 46 | 2012 | |||
| None; SR22.80 ($1.75) per hour in the public sector[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 25,000 Sierra Leonean leones ($5.75) per month[8] | 69 | 165 | .03 | 19 | 2012 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| €337.70 per month[82] | 5,195 | 7,646 | 2.50 | 32 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| €783.66 per month[17][83] | 12,056 | 14,694 | 5.80 | 55 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| SI$4.00 ($0.55) per hour for all workers except those in the fishing and agricultural sectors, who received SI$3.50 ($0.48) per hour[8] | 1,130 | 2,063[12] | .54 | 71 | 2012 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| None; R1,041 per month for farm workers in urban areas and R989 a month in rural areas; for domestic workers employed more than 27 hours per week it ranges from R1,067 a month to R1,167 a month[29] | 2008 | |||||||
| €752.85 per month in 12 payments, €645.30 per month in 14 payments[17][84] | 11,582 | 12,548 | 5.57 | 39 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 6,500 rupees per month[13] | 611 | 1,389 | .29 | 25 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 425 Sudanese pounds per month[29] | 1,910 | 3,090 | .92 | 133 | 2008 | |||
| None; SRD 600 ($180) per month is the lowest wage for civil servants[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 531.6 Swazi emalangeni ($76.50) per month for a domestic worker; 420 emalangeni ($60.50) a month for an unskilled worker; 600 emalangeni ($86.50) a month for a skilled worker[28] | 694 | 1,128 | .33 | 19 | 2011 | |||
| None; set by annual collective bargaining contracts[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| None; however, a majority of the voluntary collective bargaining agreements contain clauses on minimum compensation, ranging from 2,200 to 4,200 francs per month for unskilled workers and from 2,800 to 5,300 francs per month for skilled employees[29] | 2008 | |||||||
| 9,765 to 14,760 Syrian pounds ($176–$266) per month, plus benefits, including compensation for meals, uniforms, and transportation[28] | 2,112 | 2,850 | 1.02 | 54 | 2011 | |||
| NT$19,047 ($638) per month; NT$109 ($3.66) per hour[85][86] | 7,588 | 14,460 | 3.66 | 37 | April 1, 2013 | |||
| 80 Tajikistani somoni ($17) per month, plus certain government subsidies for workers and their families[28] | 203 | 519 | .10 | 22 | 2011 | |||
| 70,000 Tanzanian shillings ($44) per month[8] | 531 | .26 | 2012 | |||||
| Ranges from 300 Thai baht to N/A baht per day, depending on the cost of living in various provinces; set by provincial tripartite wage committees that sometimes include only employer representatives[87][88][89] | 2,510 | 4,447 | 1.21 | 51 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| US$115 per month[8] | 1,380 | .66 | 2012 | |||||
| 35,000 ($70) CFA francs per month[8][13] | 823 | 1,588 | .40 | 151 | January 1, 2012 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| TT$12.50 ($1.94) per hour[90] | 4,044 | 4,394[12] | 1.94 | 18 | 2012 | |||
| For the industrial sector: 286 Tunisian dinars ($190) per month for a 48-hour workweek and 246 dinars ($164) per month for a 40‑hour workweek; 8 dinars ($5.50) to 9 dinars ($6) per day for agricultural workers; supplemented with transportation and family allowances[28] | 1,333 | 2,560 | .64 | 27 | 2011 | |||
| 978.60 Turkish lira (411€) per month[91] | 6,524 | 11,401 | 3.14 | 67 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 500 Turkmenistani manat ($175) per month[8] | 2,100 | 1.01 | 2012 | |||||
| None; A$130 biweekly in the public sector[29] | 2008 | |||||||
| 54,000 Ugandan shillings ($20.10) per month[8] | 259 | 770 | .12 | 57 | 2012 | |||
| 6.90 Ukrainian hryven' ($.86) per hour or 1147 Ukrainian hryven' ($143) per month[8][13] | 1,723 | 3,441 | .86 | 48 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| £6.19 ($9.83) per hour (aged 21 and older), £4.98 ($7.90) per hour (aged 18–20) or £3.68 ($5.84) per hour (under 18 and finished compulsory education)[92] | 19,518 | 18,083[93] | 9.83 | 51 | October 1, 2012 | |||
| The federal minimum wage is US$7.25 per hour. States may also set a minimum, in which case the higher of the two is controlling;[94] some territories are exempt and have lower rates (seeMinimum wage in the United States). | 15,080 | 15,080[12] | 7.25 | 31 | July 24, 2009 | |||
| 7,920 Uruguayan pesos ($390) per month[8][95] | 4,679 | 4,054 | 2.25 | 27 | January 1, 2013 | |||
| 79,590 Uzbekistani som ($40) per month[8] | 480 | 937 | .23 | 17 | 2012 | |||
| 30,000 Vanuatu vatu ($323) per month[8] | 4,024 | 5,016 | 1.93 | 113 | 2012 | |||
| 2457 Venezuelan bolívares ($390) per month[96] | 4,680[97] | 8,100 | 2.25 | 64 | May 1, 2013 | |||
| VND 1.78 million ($85) to VND 2 million ($95) per month in urban areas, and VND 1.4 million ($67) to 1.55 million ($74) per month in rural areas for unskilled laborers at private enterprises; VND 830,000 ($39.50) to VND 1.05 million ($50) per month for civil servants and state employees.[8] | 486 | 1,002 | .23 | 34 | January 1, 2012 | |||
| None[8] | 2012 | |||||||
| 419 Zambian kwacha ($82) per month[28] | 1,034 | 1,176 | .50 | 60 | 2011 | |||
| None, nationally, except for agricultural and domestic workers; government regulations for each of the 22 industrial sectors specify minimum wages[29] | 2008 |
See also [edit]
- List of minimum wage laws
- List of sovereign states in Europe by minimum wage
- List of sovereign states in Europe by net average wage
- List of U.S. minimum wages
- List of minimum wages in Canada
- List of minimum wages in China (PRC)
- The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
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- ^ Annual wages were calculated by multiplying monthly wages by 12, weekly wages by 52, daily wages by 5x52 and hourly wages by Wx52, where W is the legal maximum (or the practical, if lower) workweek length in hours. A purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion rate from 2011 —obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s World Economic Outlook Database, October 2012 Edition— was used to convert the annual wage from national currency to international dollars.
- ^ Hourly wages were calculated by dividing the nominal annual rate by 52 weeks and then a the length of the standard hour workweek.
- ^ Hourly wages were calculated by dividing the PPP annual rate by 52 weeks and then by the length of the standard workweek.
- ^ GDP (PPP) per capita and PPP conversion rate for all IMF member countries, from the IMF's World Economic Outlook Database, October 2012 Edition.
- ^ Percentages were calculated by dividing the annual wage in International dollars by the country's 2011 gross domestic product (PPP) per capita, obtained from the IMF's World Economic Outlook Database, October 2012 Edition.
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- ^ USD value given using the exchange rate for 1 May 3013
External links [edit]
- FedEE review of minimum wage rates, Federation of European Employers.
- C131 Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970, International Labour Organization.
- Minimum Wages around the World
- Currency converter
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