The current minimum wage in Ireland is €12.70 per hour in 2024. It became valid on January 1, 2024.
- Valid on july 2024
- The amounts are in Euro.
- The amounts are before tax.
Age and experience
Per hour | |
National minimum wage (Aged 20 and over)
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2024
Minimum Wages - last checked - 1/15/24
|
€12.70 |
Aged under 18
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2024
Minimum Wages - last checked - 1/15/24
|
€8.89 |
Aged 18
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2024
Minimum Wages - last checked - 1/15/24
|
€10.16 |
Aged 19
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2024
Minimum Wages - last checked - 1/15/24
|
€11.43 |
Definitions
An experienced adult worker – for the purposes of the National Minimum Wage Act – is an employee who has an employment of any kind in any 2 years over the age of 18.
Ireland has a government-mandated minimum wage. No worker in Ireland can be paid less then this mandatory minimum rate of pay.
Employers in Ireland who fail to pay the Minimum Wage may be subject to punishment by the government of Ireland.
Wages per month are calculated as 4.33 times if a weekly wage is defined. It is calculated as 4.33 times the standard hours per week if an hourly wage is given.
More information is available at
Minimum Wages - Ireland - Archive
Archive from 2019 on
- Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2024
- Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
- Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2022
- Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2021
- Minimum wage with effect from February 1, 2020
- Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2019
Archive before 2019
- Minimum Wages in Ireland with effect from 01-01-2019 to 31-12-2019
- Minimum Wages in Ireland with effect from 01-01-2018 to 31-12-2018
- Minimum Wages in Ireland with effect from 01-01-2017 to 31-12-2017
- Minimum Wages in Ireland with effect from 01-01-2016
- Minimum Wages in Ireland with effect from 01-07-2011