According to Eurostat, the highest minimum wage in Europe is in Luxembourg, and the lowest is in Albania.
In 2014, Germany, Serbia, and Albania joined the list of countries with a fixed minimum wage. Meanwhile, in Italy, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark, the minimum wage has not been established to date.
The highest fixed minimum wage (gross) in Europe is set in Luxembourg, where the figure is 1922,96 euros. In second place is Belgium at 1501,82 euros, in third is the Netherlands, where the minimum wage is 2 euro cents less – 1502,80 euros. In fourth place is Germany at 1473 euros, in fifth is France at 1457,52 euros (its size has increased by 8% since 2010). In the United Kingdom, the minimum wage is 1378,87 euros.
In Spain, which has been hit by the economic crisis, the minimum wage has remained at 756,70 euros for the fourth year. And in Greece, with the onset of the debt crisis, it has only been decreasing: in 2010 it was 862 euros, and in the current year only 683 euros. In Portugal, the minimum wage is half that of the United Kingdom and amounts to 589,16 euros.
According to Russkaya Germaniya, the lowest wages in the EU countries are received in Bulgaria (184,07 euros), Romania (217,5 euros), Lithuania (300 euros), Latvia (360 euros), Czech Republic (332 euros), Hungary (332,76 euros), Slovakia (380 euros), Estonia (390 euros), Croatia (395,61 euros) and Poland (409,53 euros).