Minimum Wages
Find clear and up-to-date information on minimum wages around the world. Explore country rates, recent changes, and related insights in one place.
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Find detailed information on minimum wages worldwide, including country rates, updates, regulations, comparisons, and answers to common questions.
WageIndicator web pages provide information about Minimum Wages for 216 countries. Information is available for more than 22,000 Minimum Wages, of which more than half are in India.
In most countries Minimum Wages are updated regularly and most do so once a year. Other countries update according to the country’s inflation rate, as is shown in the WageIndicator news messages.
The WageIndicator team updates the Database on a monthly basis. Where only weekly or monthly wages have been provided, the amounts have been recalculated to hourly wages. For statistical analysis, the Minimum Wage Database is available on a monthly frequency. Contact us for more information.
Minimum wage levels vary largely across countries. In the current decade the lowest minimum reference wage is around 0.02 USD per hour in Burundi, whereas the highest rate is almost 20 USD in Switzerland, hence a thousand times higher.
Worldwide Minimum Wages are regulated by law. These Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) rates are specified by the issuing authorities, be it the national government or any institution entitled to issue such rates, such as Ministries of Labour, Wage Boards, regional authorities, or municipalities.
WageIndicator provides Minimum Wage updates through checking the relevant websites of Ministries of Labour and Wage Boards worldwide. WageIndicator gratefully receives their notifications as well as alerts from team members and web visitors.
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What's a Minimum Wage and why does it matter?
A Statutory Minimum Wage is a legal reguirement for employers to pay their employees at least the amount of this minimum wage. It is important because wages should not be to squeezed to an extremely low level.
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