List of countries by minimum wage

See also List of minimum wage laws. The list below gives the official minimum wage rates in some countries. They are national minimums so it is possible that a political subdivision may have a higher minimum (say the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany). Some countries are more effective than others at enforcing these laws, so that the effective minimum wage may be lower than the official one. A 2005 average exchange rate for the U.S. dollar was used.

Country	Minimum wage	% of GDP per capita	Annual wage (USD)
Afghanistan	N/A	—	—
Albania	11,800 Albanian lekë per month for government workers over the age of 18; there is no minimum wage for workers in the private sector	59	1,379
Algeria	10,000 Algerian dinars per month	53	1,638
Andorra	€6 per hour and €820 per month	N/A	12,237
Angola	5,400 kwanza per month	39	731
Antigua and Barbuda	EC$6.00 an hour for all categories of labor	44	4,6221
Argentina	630 Argentine pesos a month	54	2,604
Armenia	13 thousand Armenian dram per month	30	341
Australia	511.86 Australian dollars per week; most workers receive higher wages through enterprise agreements or individual contracts; trainees and apprentices, who combine employment with accredited training have minimum wage rates which vary between AUD 173.00 and AUD 453.00 per week depending on the level of schooling completed	55	22,048 1
Austria	none by law; instead, nationwide collective bargaining agreements set minimum wages by job classification for each industry; the accepted unofficial annual minimum wage is €12,000 to €14,000	26-30	9,649-11,257
Azerbaijan	150 thousand (pre-2006) Azerbaijani manat per month	26	381
Bahamas	B$4.00 per hour for the private sector; B$4.45 per hour for government employees	45/50	8,320/9,2561
Bahrain	none; the government has stated that the public and private sectors should pay workers no less than 150 Bahraini dinars per month; the government's lowest pay grade for its civilian employees is 200 dinars per month	30/40	4,787/6,383
Bangladesh	2,650 Bangladeshi taka for a skilled industrial worker outside an EPZ and taka 3,400 a month for a skilled industrial worker in an EPZ	123/157	494/634
Barbados	BDS$5 per hour for household domestics and shop assistants	45	5,2001
Belarus	118 thousand Belarusian rubles a month	22	659
Belgium	€1,243 a month for workers over 21 years of age; 18-year-olds must be paid at least 82% of the minimum, 19-year-olds 88%, and 20-year-olds 94% of the minimum.	52	18,550
Belize	BZ$2.25 an hour for all workers	66	2,6332
Benin	25 thousand CFA francs per month; the government administratively set minimum wage scales for a number of occupations	96	569
Bhutan	100 Bhutanese ngultrum per day plus various allowances paid in cash or kind	56	590
Bolivia	436 Bolivian bolivianos per month	61	649
Bosnia and Herzegovina	82 convertible marke in Republika Srpska; 308 convertible maraka per month in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.	26/98	626/2,350
Botswana	2.90 Botswana pula an hour for most full-time labor in the private sector	20	1,1801
Brazil	R$ 380 per month; adjusted annually by the Federal government; each state is free to set its own minimum wage, provided it is not lower than the Federal wage.	28	2,399
Brunei	none	—	—
Bulgaria	180 Bulgarian leva per month	35	1,220
Burkina Faso	22,800 CFA francs a month in the formal sector; does not apply to subsistence agriculture	118	519
Burundi	160 Burundian francs per day for unskilled workers	35	37
Cambodia	US$45 per month for the garment and footwear industries; it may vary regionally	144	540
Cameroon	23,514 CFA francs per month; applicable in all sectors	56	535
Canada	set by each province and territory; minimum hourly wages vary from CAD$7.00 to CAD$8.00 in the provinces and up to CAD$8.50 in Nunavut; Ontario has a minimum wage rate for youths lower than its minimum for adult workers; British Columbia has a lower rate for the first 500 hours in the workforce regardless of age; employers under federal jurisdiction are bound by their host province's general minimum wage (i.e. the lower minimums for youths, etc. in some provinces do not apply at the federal level) (see list of minimum wages in Canada)	32-421	11,157-14,590
Cape Verde	none in the private sector; 12,000 Cape Verdean escudos per month for an entry‑level worker as set by large urban private employers by linking their minimum wages to those paid to civil servants	78	1,624
Central African Republic	6,519 CFA francs a month for agricultural workers; 15,211 CFA francs a month for office workers.	44/103	148/346
Chad	25,480 CFA francs per month	96	580
Chile	135,000 Chilean pesos per month for those aged 18–65; 101,491 pesos for those younger than 18 and for those older than 65; and 87,697 pesos for honorary payments (Chilean Law 20,039 [1])	41	3,004
People's Republic of China	none nationally, but the Labor Law allows local governments to set a minimum wage	—	—
Republic of China	NT$15,840 a month	40	5,994
Colombia	433,700 Colombian pesos a month; established by the government every January, serving as a benchmark for wage bargaining	29.2	2,310
Comoros	none	—	—
Democratic Republic of the Congo	minimum wage laws are suspended as of 2005	—	—
Republic of the Congo	54,000 CFA francs per month in the formal sector	70	1,228
Costa Rica	ranging from 72,586 Costa Rican colones a month for domestic employees to 285,635 colones for university graduates, for the private sector; set by the National Wage Council	40-157	1,823-7,174
Croatia	1,850 Croatian kuna per month	45	3,733
Cuba	it varies by occupation; on average, 225 Cuban pesos a month; supplemented by the government with free education, subsidized medical care (daily pay is reduced by 40 percent after the third day of being admitted to a hospital), housing, and some subsidized food	N/A	108
Cyprus	The legal minimum wage was 362 Cypriot pounds per month for shop assistants, practical nurses, clerks, hairdressers, and nursery assistants. The minimum wage rose to 385 CYP after 6 months' employment.	N/A	10,380
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	594 Turkish new lira per month	26	5,241
Czech Republic	7,185 Czech korun a month	30	3,599
Denmark	none by law	—	—
Dominica	set by law for various categories of workers (last revised in 1989); as low as EC$1.00 per hour for some categories of workers (e.g., household employees) if meals are included; for most workers ranges from EC$2.00 per hour for tourist industry workers to EC$3.00 per hour for occupations such as shop clerk; labor laws provide that the labor commissioner may authorize the employment of a person with disabilities at a wage lower than the minimum rate in order to enable that person to be employed gainfully.	>20/39-59	>770/1,541-2,3111
Dominican Republic	3,561 Dominican pesos a month in the FTZs and 4,920 pesos outside the FTZs; 1,906 pesos per month for the public sector; 13 pesos an hour for farm workers who are covered by minimum wage regulations, based on a 10-hour day	23-60	752-1,942
East Timor	not stipulated in law; in practice, US$85 per month	270	1,020
Ecuador	as of December 2005 the minimum wage plus mandated bonuses provided a gross monthly compensation of approximately US$166, or US$0.95 per hour, in the case of contract workers	80	1,992
Egypt	N/A; determined by the National Council of Wages for government and public sector employees; it differs among sectors	—	—
El Salvador	US$5.28 a day for service employees; US$5.16 for industrial laborers; US$5.04 for maquila workers; US$2.47 for agriculture industry workers, with US$3.57 for seasonal agriculture industry workers	26-56	642-1,373
Equatorial Guinea	N/A; set by the government	—	—
Eritrea	325 Eritrean nakfa per month in the civil service sector	n/c	n/c
Estonia	as of January 1, 2007, 3,600 Estonian krooni per month at a full time job, 21,50 EEK per hour; approximately 94 percent of the workforce earns above the minimum wage	22.05	3,620
Fiji	N/A; set for certain sectors	—	—
Finland	not in law; however, the law requires all employers, including nonunionized ones, to meet the minimum wages agreed to in collective bargaining agreements in each sector of the workforce; almost all workers are covered under such arrangements	—	—
France	€8.03 per hour	54	18,1753
Georgia	115 Georgian lari a month for public employees; 20 GEL a month for private sector sector workers; 28 GEL a month for pensioners	9-51	132-761
Germany	none by law (but in discussion); collective bargaining agreements set minimum wages by job classification for each industry and region; however, these agreements apply only to employers who are full members of an employers' association (the vast majority of German employers are members)	—	—
Ghana	19,000 Ghanaian cedis a day	76	387
Greece	€28 daily and €616 monthly; set by the GSEE and the Employers' Association through collective bargaining and routinely ratified by the Ministry of Labor	46	9,193
Grenada	set for various categories of workers; for example, agricultural workers were classified into male and female workers; rates for men were EC$5.00 per hour, and for women EC$4.75 per hour; however, if a female worker performed the same task as a man, her rate of pay was the same; the minimum wage for domestic workers was set at EC$400 monthly	39-85	1,778-3,852
Guatemala	42.46 Guatemalan quetzales a day in agriculture and 43.64 quetzales a day in non-agricultural work; a mandatory monthly incentive bonus for salaried employees of 250 quetzales, effectively raises the minimum wage to 53.8 quetzales per day for agricultural work and 55 quetzales for non-agricultural work	92-94	1,832-1,873
Guinea	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	—	—
Guinea-Bissau	19,030 CFA francs per month plus a bag of rice	n/c	n/c
Guyana	G$22,099 per month; G$3,300 per week for certain categories of private sector workers; affected occupations include retail cashiers and clerks, printers, drivers, and conductors	83/128	855/1,321
Haiti	36 Haitian gourdes a day	46	231
Honduras	broken down by sector and size of business: small (1-15 workers) and large (16 or more workers); the scale ranges from 61.3 Honduran lempiras a day for workers in small agriculture to 97.8 lempiras a day for workers in financial and insurance companies and workers in export-oriented businesses, including maquiladoras and commercial agriculture, such as tobacco, coffee, bananas, and seafood production; workers in areas such as construction, services, mining, transportation, communication, etc., had minimum wages between these two rates	74-117	842-1,344
Hong Kong	applies only to foreign laborers	—	—
Hungary	62,500 Hungarian forint per month; set by the IRC through agreement among its participants, representatives of the Government, employers, and employees	34	3,758
Iceland	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	—	—
India	varies according to the state and to the sector of industry; state governments set a separate minimum wage for agricultural workers; some industries, such as the apparel and footwear industries, did not have a prescribed minimum wage in any of the states in which they operated	—	—
Indonesia	710 thousand Indonesian rupiah per month; as low as 340 thousand rupiah per month in one area; set by provincial and district authorities based on proposals by tripartite (workers, employers, and government) provincial wage commissions	>33/70	>420/878
Iran	122 thousand tomans a month; established annually for each industrial sector and region	46	1,307
Iraq	5,250 Iraqi dinars per day for an unskilled worker; 10,500 dinars per day for a skilled worker	52/104	925/1,851
Israel	close to 50% of the average wage; as of April 2007 the minimum wage was 3,710.18 New Israel Shekels per month; 148.40 New Israel Shekels a day for those employed on the basis of a six-day work week; 171.21 New Israel Shekels for those employed on the basis of a five-day work week; the minimum hourly wage is 1/186 of the monthly minimum, or 19.95 New Israel Shekels [2]	35	10,940
Italy	none by law; instead set by a collective bargaining agreements on a sector-by-sector basis; when an employer and a union fail to reach an agreement, courts may determine fair wages on the basis of practice in comparable activities, although this rarely occurs in practice	—	—
Ireland	€8.30 per hour, rising to €8.65 per hour from the 1st of July 2007 , for workers with more than two years experience over the age of eighteen. Other rates, between 70% and 90% of the minimum wage, apply for those in training, under the age of eighteen, and those in the first two years of employment after the age of eighteen.	40	21,796.40 4
Jamaica	J$2,400 per week and J$90 per hour for private security guards	56	1,996
Japan	ranges from 606 Japanese yen to 710 yen per hour; set on a regional (prefectural) and industry basis, with the input of tripartite (workers, employers, public interest) advisory councils	32-37	11,436-13,3991
Jersey	5.24 Jersey pounds per hour for all workers, however trainees rate is JEP 3.94 per hour	50.5	20 1941
Jordan	90 Jordanian dinars per month	69	1,523
Kazakhstan	9,200 Kazakhstani tenge a month	22	831
Kiribati	none; in practice, between A$1.60 to A$1.70 per hour	343-364	2,303-2,4475
North Korea	N/A	—	—
South Korea	3,480 South Korean won per hour and 27,840 won per day as of January 2007; reviewed annually	38	6,296
Kuwait	200 Kuwaiti dinars per month for public sector citizen employees and 90 dinars for public sector non-citizen employees; no legal minimum wage in the private sector	32	8,219
Kyrgyzstan	100 Kyrgyzstani som per month	6	29
Laos	4 thousand Lao kip a day	21	96
Latvia	120 Latvian latu a month	24	1,700
Lebanon	300 thousand Lebanese lira per month	40	2,388
Libya	none; wages are forbidden by the Green Book and paid in the form of "entitlements"	—	—
Liechtenstein	none	—	—
Lithuania	600 Lithuanian litas per month	32	2,379
Luxembourg	varies according to the worker's age and number of dependents; for a single worker over the age of 18 is €1,403 per month for unskilled workers, and €1,684 per month for skilled workers	28/33	20,938/25,131
FYR Macedonia	none	—	—
Madagascar	50,600 Malagasy ariary per month	n/c	n/c
Malaysia	350 Malaysian ringgit per month for plantation workers; raised to 700 ringgit by productivity incentives and bonuses	44	2,211
Maldives	none for the private sector; the government establishes wage floors for government employment	—	—
Malta	56 Maltese lira a week for adults, combined with an annual mandatory bonus of 214 Maltese lira and a 38 Maltese lira annual cost of living increase allowance; citizens are also entitled to additional government subsidies for housing, health care, and education	67	9,151
Mali	28 thousand CFA francs per month	n/c	n/c
Marshall Islands	US$2.00 per hour for government and private sector employees	N/A	4,1601
Mauritania	21,000 Mauritanian ouguiya per month for adults	n/c	n/c
Mauritius	between 492-644 Mauritian rupees per week, depending of whether or not in the EPZ	n/c	$17-$22
Mexico	50.57 Mexican pesos a day in Zone A (Baja California, Federal District, State of Mexico, and large cities); 49 pesos a day in Zone B (Sonora, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Jalisco); and 47.60 pesos a day in Zone C (all other states)	15-16	1,093-1,161
Federated States of Micronesia	US$2.00 per hour for government workers and US$1.35 for private-sector workers in Pohnpei; US$1.25 per hour for government workers in Chuuk; US$1.49 per hour for government workers in Kosrae; US$0.80 per hour for government workers in Yap; US$2.64 for employment with the national government	N/A	2,600-5,491
Moldova	200 Moldovan lei a month for public sector employees and 550 lei for private sector employees	23/64	190/524
Monaco	same as the French minimum wage for full-time work, plus a 5% adjustment	N/A	19,084
Mongolia	40 thousand Mongolian tugrug per month for public and private sector workers; virtually all civil servants earn more, and many in private businesses earn considerably more; some employees receive housing benefits	55	404
Morocco	2,023 Moroccan dirhams per month in the industrialized sector and 56 dirhams per day for agricultural workers	159	2,738
Myanmar	136 Myanma kyat a day for salaried public employees; supplemented by various subsidies and allowances	34	33
Namibia	no statutory minimum wage law; the mining, construction, and agricultural sectors set basic levels of pay through collective bargaining	—	—
Nauru	none	—	—
Nepal	1,894 Nepalese rupees a month for unskilled labor; Rs. 1,944 for semi-skilled labor; Rs. 2,054 for skilled labor; Rs. 2,244 for highly skilled labor; additional allowances for food and other benefits totaled Rs. 500 per month	99-117	318-377
Netherlands	€1,264 per month plus 8% holiday allowance, summing to €1,349.14 (the amount is less for those 22 years old or younger)	53	20,134
New Zealand	NZ$11.25 per hour for workers 18 years old or older, and NZ$9.00 per hour for those aged 16 or 17 [3]. There is no statutory minimum wage for employees who are under 16 years old.	57	15,011
Nicaragua	each key sector of the economy has a different minimum wage; in every sector the minimum wage was below the 2,602 Nicaraguan córdobas that the government estimated an urban family needed monthly for a basic basket of goods	<215	<1,866
Norway	none	—	—
Oman	set for various categories of workers; 100 Omani rials per month for most citizens, plus 20 rials for transportation and housing	30	3,745
Pakistan	2,500 Pakistani rupees per month for unskilled workers applying only to industrial and commercial establishments employing 50 or more workers	66	504
Palau	US$2.50 per hour; does not include foreign workers	N/A	5,200
Panama	ranges from 0.82 to 1.56 Panamanian balboas per hour, depending on the region and sector; the law establishes minimum wage rates for specific regions and for most categories of labor, excluding public sector workers	43-82	2,047-3,8946
Papua New Guinea	37.50 Papua New Guinean kina per week for adult workers in the private sector; 75% of the adult minimum wage for new entrants into the labor force between 16 and 21 years of age	71/95	475/633
Paraguay	1.08 million Paraguayan guaraníes per month for private sector workers; there is no public sector minimum wage	180	2,098
Peru	500 Peruvian nuevos soles per month	65	1,820
Philippines	ranges from P325 a day for nonagricultural workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) to P180 a day for agricultural workers in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM); set by tripartite regional wage boards	73-132	850-1,534
Poland	936 Polish złotych per month	42	3,990
Portugal	405 € per month (USD$ 548,0262), but only about 2% receive this; rest receiving substantially more.	—	—
Qatar	none	—	—
Russia	1,100 Russian rubles per month	9	467
Romania	390 Romanian lei per month	35	1,850
Rwanda	N/A; it varies according to the nature of the job	—	—
Samoa	WST$2.00 per hour	84	1,5351
Saint Kitts and Nevis	EC$150 per week for full-time domestic workers; EC$200 per week for skilled workers	27/35	2,889/3,852
Saint Lucia	EC$300 a month for office clerks; EC$200 for shop assistants; EC$160 for messengers	15-29	711-1,333
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	EC$25 per day for agriculture industry workers; EC$30 per day for industrial workers earned	61/73	2,407/2,889
San Marino	€6.7 per hour	N/A	15,5987/16,2488
Saudi Arabia	none; de facto minimum wage for citizen workers is set based on the minimum monthly contribution to the pension system, which is now 1,500 Saudi riyals a month	36	4,804
São Tomé and Príncipe	400,000 São Tomé and Príncipe dobras per month for civil servants	n/c	n/c
Senegal	175.91 CFA francs per hour (farming wage), 209.10 CFA francs (industrial wage)	47.000 CFA francs /month (industrial wage)	91
Serbia and Montenegro	€52 per month	25	776
Sierra Leone	40,000 Sierra Leonean leones per month	n/c	n/c
Singapore	no laws or regulations	—	—
Slovakia	7,600 Slovak korún per month	23	3,648
Slovenia	€521.83 per month	45	8,094
Solomon Island	SI$1.50 per hour for all workers except those in the fishing and agricultural sectors, who receive SI$1.25	65/78	388/4662
Somalia	none	—	—
South Africa	R950 a month for farm workers in urban areas and R872 a month in rural areas; for domestics depends on the number of hours worked and ranges from R3.87 an hour to R5.25 an hour; set by sector	28-38	1,424-1,9322
Spain	€540.90 per month	30	8,072
Sri Lanka	N/A; thirty-eight wage boards established by the Ministry of Labor set minimum wages and working conditions by sector and industry	—	—
Sudan	12,500 Sudanese dinars per month	n/c	n/c
Suriname	none	—	—
Swaziland	300 Swazi emalangeni a month for a domestic worker; 420 emalangeni a month for an unskilled worker; 600 emalangeni a month for a skilled worker	n/c	n/c
Sweden	none by law; set by collective bargaining contracts every year	—	—
Switzerland	none by law; it is normally 3,000 Swiss francs a month set by collective agreements	57	28,911
Syria	3,200 Syrian pounds per month for public sector workers, plus benefits, including compensation for meals, uniforms, and transportation; 3,500 Syrian pounds per month for private sector workers; private sector companies usually paid much higher wages than the minimum	241	3,421
Tajikistan	12 Tajikistani somoni per month	13	46
Tanzania	48 thousand Tanzanian shillings per month for employment in the formal sector	n/c	n/c
Thailand	ranges from 139 Thai baht to 181 baht per day, depending on the cost of living in various provinces; set by provincial wage committees that sometimes include only employer representatives	35/45	899/1,170
Togo	range from 10,000 to 16,000 CFA francs	n/c	n/c
Tonga	none	—	—
Trinidad and Tobago	TT$9.00 per hour	24	2,9791
Tunisia	194 Tunisian dinars per month for the industrial sector; 7.33 dinars per day for "specialized" agricultural workers and 7.71 dinars per day for "qualified" agricultural workers	49-60	1,469-1,794
Turkey	489 Turkish new lira per month	86	4,367
Turkmenistan	1 to 1.5 million Turkmenistani manat per month in the state sector	~14-21	~500-750
Tuvalu	A$130 biweekly in the public sector; adopted by the private sector in most cases	N/A	2,581
Uganda	6,000 Ugandan shillings per month	n/c	n/c
Ukraine	350 Ukrainian hryven' per month	47	820
United Arab Emirates	none; officials do not approve any labor contracts that stipulate substandard wages	—	—
United Kingdom	£5.35 per hour for 22-year-olds and above (except those within the first six months of their job and receiving accredited training); £4.45 per hour for 18-to-21-year-olds and those within the first six months of their job and receiving accredited training; £3.30 per hour for under-18s who have finished compulsory education; none for those who have not yet finished compulsory education (the age when a person finishes compulsory education is either 15 or 16, depending on where their birthday falls in the school year)		19,098
United States	the federal minimum wage is US$5.15 per hour now, although workers under age 20 can be paid US$4.25 an hour for their first 90 days. On May 23 2007, Congress passed a bill increasing to $7.25 over the next two years. A states may also set a minimum, in which case the higher of the two is controlling. Some states have minimum wage laws ranging from US$2.65 in Kansas (for some jobs not covered by the federal rate, i.e. those that receive substantial gratuity), to US$7.93 an hour in Washington; some cities and counties have living wage ordinances of up to US$15.00 an hour although the groups of workers it applies to are often limited (29 USC Sec. 206) (OK Statutes 40-197.5) (Revised Code of Washington Sec. 49.46.020) [4]. See List of U.S. state minimum wages.	251	10,712
Uruguay	2,500 Uruguayan pesos per month	26	1,226
Uzbekistan	9,400 Uzbekistani som per month	25	111
Vanuatu	20 thousand Vanuatu vatu per month	~150	~2,300
Venezuela	614,790 Venezuelan bolívares per month	55	3,431
Vietnam	for foreign‑investment joint ventures (monthly): 626 thousand Vietnamese đồng in urban districts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; 556 thousand VND in rural districts of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and districts of Hai Phong, Bien Hoa City, and Vung Tau City; and 487 thousand VND elsewhere; the government may temporarily exempt certain joint ventures from paying the minimum wage during the first months of an enterprise's operations or if the enterprise is located in a very remote area, but the minimum wage in these cases can be no lower than 417 thousand VND; adjusted for inflation and other economic changes; for the state sector: 350 thousand VND a month	52-78	318-477
Yemen	none	—	—
Zambia	83,200 Zambian kwacha per month for nonunionized workers	n/c	n/c
Zimbabwe	Gardener, Z$800,000; cook/housekeeper, Z$850,000; child- or disabled-minder, Z$900,000); and child- or disabled-minder with Red Cross certification, Z$950,000	n/c	n/c

¹ 40 h/week; ² 45 h/week; ³ 35 h/week; ⁴ 39 h/week; ⁵ 36¼ h/week; ⁶ 48 h/week; ⁷ 36 h/week; ⁸ 37½ h/week

References

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (2005) (United States Department of State)
• Romania: FedEE review of minimum wages in Europe
• CIA World Factbook's yearly average dollar exchange rates
• US State Department [5]
• GDP information from list of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
• Minimum wage in India