# EU countries by real hourly minimum wage, 2025

All 21 values come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `real_minimum_wage_hourly_usd_ppp`
- Unit: USD at PPP
- Definition: Statutory minimum wage converted to an hourly rate, deflated with the consumer price index to the OECD's current base year and converted to US dollars with purchasing power parities for private consumption of that year.
- Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Real minimum wages: hourly, US dollars at constant prices and PPPs for private consumption (DSD_EARNINGS@RMW) (https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_EARNINGS%40RMW&df[ag]=OECD.ELS.SAE)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/oecd
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: OECD. OECD Real minimum wages: hourly, US dollars at constant prices and PPPs for private consumption (DSD_EARNINGS@RMW). https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_EARNINGS%40RMW&df[ag]=OECD.ELS.SAE. Accessed 2026-10-12. Data reuse terms and downstream attribution: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/real-hourly-minimum-wage/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | USD at PPP |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 17.83 |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 17.75 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 16.71 |
| 4 | France | 16.22 |
| 5 | Belgium | 15.72 |
| 6 | Spain | 15.23 |
| 7 | Ireland | 14.93 |
| 8 | Poland | 13.01 |
| 9 | Slovenia | 12.4 |
| 10 | Lithuania | 11.55 |
| 11 | Romania | 11.24 |
| 12 | Portugal | 10.16 |
| 13 | Croatia | 9.53 |
| 14 | Czechia | 8.86 |
| 15 | Greece | 8.35 |
| 16 | Slovakia | 8.29 |
| 17 | Hungary | 8.17 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 8 |
| 19 | Estonia | 7.9 |
| 20 | Latvia | 7.71 |
| 21 | Malta | 1.86 |