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| World Minimum Wages |
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| Country |
Minimum wage |
% of GDP per capita |
Annual wage (USD) |
| Afghanistan |
N/A |
— |
— |
| Albania |
11,800 lek 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 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 |
4,622 1 |
| Argentina |
630 pesos a month |
54 |
2,604 |
| Armenia |
13 thousand AMD per month |
30 |
341 |
| Australia |
AUD 484.40 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 |
19,235 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 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 |
8,320/9,256 1 |
| Bahrein |
none; the government has stated that the public and private sectors should pay workers no less than 150 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 |
taka 2,650 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 |
5,200 1 |
| Belarus |
118 thousand 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 |
US$2.25 BLZ an hour for all workers |
66 |
2,633 2 |
| Benin |
25 thousand CFA francs per month; the government administratively set minimum wage scales for a number of occupations |
96 |
569 |
| Bhutan |
100 ngultrums per day plus various allowances paid in cash or kind |
56 |
590 |
| Bolivia |
436 bolivianos per month |
61 |
649 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
82 convertible marks in Republika Srpska ; 308 convertible marks per month in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina . |
26/98 |
626/2,350 |
| Botswana |
2.90 pula an hour for most full-time labor in the private sector |
20 |
1,180 1 |
| Brazil |
R$ 350 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. |
40 |
1,725 |
| Brunei |
none |
— |
— |
| Bulgaria |
160 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; hourly wages vary from CAD $6.50 to CAD$8.00 to CAD$8.50; Ontario and Alberta have a minimum wage rate for youths lower than their respective minimums for adult workers; British Columbia has a lower rate for the first 500 hours in the workforce regardless of age ( see list of minimum wages in Canada ) |
32-42 1 |
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 |
| Chile |
127,500 pesos per month for those aged 18–65; 95,927 pesos for those younger than 18 and for those older than 65; and 82,889 pesos for honorary payments; starting July 1 , 2006 , 135,000; 101,491; and 87,697 pesos, respectively (Chilean Law 20,039 [1] ) |
39 |
2,732 |
| People's Republic of China |
none nationally, but the Labor Law allows local governments to set a minimum wage |
— |
— |
| Colombia |
380 thousand pesos a month; established by the government every January, serving as a benchmark for wage bargaining |
72 |
1,965 |
| Costa Rica |
ranging from 72,586 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 kunas per month |
45 |
3,733 |
| Cuba |
it varies by occupation; on average, 225 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 |
594 Turkish new lira per month |
26 |
5,241 |
| Czech Republic |
7,185 CZK 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 |
>770/1,541-2,311 1 |
| Dominican Republic |
3,561 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 |
| 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 |
| Egypt |
N/A; determined by the National Council of Wages for government and public sector employees; it differs among sectors |
— |
— |
| Estonia |
2,690 EEK per month; approximately 94 percent of the workforce earns above the minimum wage |
26 |
2,565 |
| 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 |
18,175 3 |
| Georgia |
115 GEL 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); set by collective bargaining agreements |
— |
— |
| Ghana |
13,520 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 HUF 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 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 dinars per day for an unskilled worker; 10,500 dinars per day for a skilled worker |
52/104 |
925/1,851 |
| Israel |
approximately 45.3% of the average wage; as of January 2006 the minimum wage was 3,335.18 New Israel Shekels per month; 133.41 New Israel Shekels a day for those employed on the basis of a six-day work week; 153.93 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 17.93 New Israel Shekels [2] |
49 |
8,918 |
| 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 |
€7.65 per hour |
40 |
19,293 4 |
| Jamaica |
J$2,400 per week and J$90 per hour for private security guards |
56 |
1,996 |
| Japan |
ranges from 606 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 |
11,436-13,399 1 |
| Jordan |
90 dinars per month |
69 |
1,523 |
| Kazakhstan |
9,200 KZT a month |
22 |
831 |
| Kiribati |
none; in practice, between A$1.60 to A$1.70 per hour |
343-364 |
2,303-2,447 5 |
| North Korea |
N/A |
— |
— |
| South Korea |
3,100 won per hour and 24,800 won per day as of September 2005 ; reviewed annually |
38 |
6,296 |
| Kuwait |
200 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 som per month |
6 |
29 |
| Laos |
4 thousand kip a day |
21 |
96 |
| Latvia |
80 lats a month |
24 |
1,700 |
| Lebanon |
300 thousand pounds per month |
40 |
2,388 |
| Libya |
none; wages are forbidden by the Green Book and paid in the form of "entitlements" |
— |
— |
| Liechtenstein |
none |
— |
— |
| Lithuania |
550 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 |
— |
— |
| Malaysia |
350 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 |
| Marshall Islands |
US$2.00 per hour for government and private sector employees |
N/A |
4,160 1 |
| Mexico |
48.67 pesos a day in Zone A (Baja California, Federal District, State of Mexico, and large cities); 47.16 pesos a day in Zone B (Sonora, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Jalisco); and 45.81 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 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 tugrik 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 dirhams per month in the industrialized sectora and 56 dirhams per day for agricultural workers |
159 |
2,738 |
| Myanmar |
136 kyat a day for salaried public employees; supplemented by various subsidies and allowances |
34 |
33 |
| Nauru |
none |
— |
— |
| Nepal |
1,894 NRS a month for unskilled labor; 1,944 NRS for semi-skilled labor; 2,054 NRS for skilled labor; 2,244 NRS for highly skilled labor; additional allowances for food and other benefits totaled 500 NRS 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 $10.25 per hour for workers 18 years old or older, and NZ$8.20 per hour for those aged 16 or 17 [3] |
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 cordobas 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 rials per month for most citizens, plus 20 rials for transportation and housing |
30 |
3,745 |
| Pakistan |
PKR 2,500 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 balboas to 1.56 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 |
2,047-3,894 6 |
| Papua New Guinea |
37.50 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 guaranies per month for private sector workers; there is no public sector minimum wage |
180 |
2,098 |
| Peru |
500 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 |
899 PLN per month |
42 |
3,334 |
| Portugal |
€374.70 per month; covers full-time workers as well as rural workers and domestic employees ages 18 and over |
32 |
5,592 |
| Qatar |
none |
— |
— |
| Russia |
1,100 rubles per month |
9 |
467 |
| Romania |
3.1 million ROL per month |
27 |
1,240 |
| Samoa |
WST$2.00 per hour |
84 |
1,535 1 |
| 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 |
15,598 7 /16,248 8 |
| 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 riyals a month |
36 |
4,804 |
| Serbia and Montenegro |
€52 per month |
25 |
776 |
| Singapore |
no laws or regulations |
— |
— |
| Slovakia |
6,900 SKK per month |
31 |
2,669 |
| Slovenia |
122,600 tolars a month |
45 |
7,634 |
| 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 |
388/466 2 |
| 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 |
1,424-1,932 2 |
| 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 |
— |
— |
| Suriname |
none |
— |
— |
| Sweden |
none by law; set by collective bargaining contracts every year |
— |
— |
| Switzerland |
none by law; it is normally 3,000 CHF 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 |
| Taiwan |
NT$15,840 a month |
40 |
5,994 |
| Tajikistan |
12 somoni per month |
13 |
46 |
| Thailand |
ranges from 139 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 |
| Tonga |
none |
— |
— |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
TT$9.00 per hour |
24 |
2,979 1 |
| Tunisia |
194 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 lira per month |
86 |
4,367 |
| Turkmenistan |
1 to 1.5 million TMM 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 |
| Ukraine |
350 hryvnia per month |
47 |
820 |
| United Arab Emirates |
none; officials do not approve any labor contracts that stipulate substandard wages |
— |
— |
| United Kingdom |
£ 5.05 per hour for 22-year-olds and above (except those within the first six months of their job and receiving accredited training) (£5.35 from October 2006); £4.25 per hour for 18-to-21-year-olds and those within the first six months of their job and receiving accredited training (£4.45 from October 2006); £3.00 per hour for under-18s who have finished compulsory education (£3.30 from October 2006); 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) |
52 1 |
19,098 |
| United States |
the federal minimum wage is US$5.15 per hour, although workers under age 20 can be paid US$4.25 an hour for their first 90 days; some states also 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$7.63 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] |
25 1 |
10,712 |
| Uruguay |
2,500 pesos per month |
26 |
1,226 |
| Uzbekistan |
9,400 soum per month |
25 |
111 |
| Vanuatu |
20 thousand vatu per month |
~150 |
~2,300 |
| Venezuela |
405 thousand bolivars a month |
46 |
2,326 |
| Vietnam |
for foreign-investment joint ventures (monthly): 626 thousand VND 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 |
— |
— |
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