Minimum Wage – Slovakia

• Valid on January 2026
• The amounts are in Euro.
• The amounts are before tax.

Working hours

• Employees are entitled to monthly minimum wage if their agreed working time is 40 hours per week.

Definitions

Slovakia has a government-mandated minimum wage. No worker in Slovakia should be paid less then this minimum pay rate.
Employers in Slovakia who do not pay the Minimum Wage may be subject to punishment by the government of Slovakia.
Grade System and Minimum Wages
Based on difficulty, jobs are divided into six categories. The minimum wage is notified for the first category (Grade 1). For other levels, a coefficient system is used. ​ ​​
​G​rade 1 (Minimum wage coefficient​:1)
- ​work post corresponding to the first degree of difficulty of work is characterised by the performance of assistant, preparatory or handling works pursuant to exact procedures and instructions. ​
G​rade 2 (Minimum wage coefficient​:1.2)
- ​​work post corresponding to the second degree of work difficulty is characterised by the performance of purposeful service repetitive work or professional repetitive controllable work pursuant to set procedures or operating regimes or works connected with material responsibility; performance of simple craft works; performance of sanitary work in health care; performance of repeated, controllable works of administrative, economic-administrative, operating-technical or economic pursuant to instructions or set procedures; ​
G​rade 3 (Minimum wage coefficient​:1.4)
- work post corresponding to the third degree of work difficulty is characterised by the performance of various professional or purposeful professional works or independent execution of less complicated agendas; independent performance of individual creative craft works; management or operative execution of the work of equipment or operating processes connected with higher intellectual exertion with possible responsibility for health and safety of other persons or for damages recoverable only with difficulty; ​​
G​rade 4 (Minimum wage coefficient​:1.6)
- ​work post corresponding to the fourth degree of work difficulty is characterised by the independent execution of professional agendas or the performance of partial conceptual, systematic and methodical works connected with higher intellectual exertion; provision of health care, expert activities in health care with responsibility for the health of people; management, organisation or the coordination of complicated processes or an extensive range of very complicated equipment with possible responsibility for the lives and health of other persons; ​​​
G​rade 5 (Minimum wage coefficient​:1.8)
- ​​work post corresponding to the fifth degree of work difficulty are characterised by performance of specialised systematic, conceptual, creative or methodical works with high intellectual exertion; complete organisation of the most complicated sections and agendas with the determination of new procedures within the system; the performance of expert and specialised activity in the relevant area of health care with responsibility for the health of people; management, organisation and coordination of very complicated processes and systems including selection and optimisation of procedures and means of the solution; ​​​​
​G​rade 6 (Minimum wage coefficient​:2)
- ​​​work post corresponding to the sixth degree of work difficulty are characterised by the solution of creative tasks in an unusual way with unspecified outputs with the high rate of responsibility for damages with the broadest social consequences; the provision of specialised and certified activities in health care with responsibility for people’s health and lives; management, organisation and coordination of the most complicated systems with responsibility for unrecoverable material and moral damages with considerable demands on the capacity to solve complicated and conflictive situations usually connected with a general threat to the broadest group of persons.
https://www.employment.gov.sk/sk/praca-zamestnanost/vztah-zamestnanca-zamestnavatela/odmenovanie/minimalne-mzdove-naroky/

Source

See https://www.ip.gov.sk/minimalna-mzda-a-minimalne-mzdove-naroky-v-roku-2025/

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