Latest minimum wage data from Eurostat

Europe

The European Commission's statistics agency Eurostat has just released the latest figures for minimum wage rates for the 22 countries in the EU, now including Germany, that have national minimum wages. The report includes a comparison with figures from 2008, and reveals that Greece was the only country to see a fall (-14%) while in Ireland the rate remained unchanged. The highest increases between 2008 and 2015 were registered in Romania (+95%), Bulgaria (+64%), Slovakia (+58%) and Latvia (+57%). The report also includes figures for minimum wages related to median wages although the data on median wages appears to date from 2010 and so may not reflect the current situation.
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