Minimum wages

Topics Earnings

12.82 EUR minimum wage from 01.01.2025

703,000 minimum wage jobs (April 2022)

381,000 women earn minimum wage (April 2022)

Press releases

25 November 2022 Number of low-wage jobs down by 0.5 million in April 2022 from April 2018

Nearly one in five persons in dependent employment (19%) worked in the low-wage sector in Germany in April 2022. This means that roughly 7.5 million jobs were low-wage jobs earning less than a gross 12.50 euros per hour. The number of low-paid jobs decreased by 514,000 compared with April 2018 (8.0 million), according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The share of low-wage jobs as a proportion of all employment relationships thus fell from 21% to 19% in Germany as a whole. The pay gap between low-paid and high-paid workers, however, remained almost unchanged.

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23 February 2022 Minimum wages in the EU: between 332 euros and 2,257 euros in gross terms per month

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21 October 2020 8 million low-wage jobs in 2018

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29 June 2020 Wage differentiation: declining differences in earnings between low-paid and high-paid workers

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29 June 2020 Just under two million jobs benefit from minimum wage increase in 2019

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27 February 2020 Number of minimum wage jobs continuously down between 2015 and 2018

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Persons employed receiving minimum wage

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Below minimum wage jobs

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Jobs in Western Germany

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Jobs in Eastern Germany

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Minimum wage jobs compared between eastern, western and total Germany

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Below minimum wage jobs compared between eastern, western and total Germany

Quality Reports

Quality Report - Earnings Survey

Quality Report - Earnings Survey

Purpose of the statistics: Data input for several sets of short-term economic and structural statistics, representation of short-term trends in gross earnings and working hours (by sex and requirement level) as well as information on the short-term economic development, risks to price stability and international competitiveness.

Quality Report - Quarterly Earnings Survey

Quality Report - Quarterly Earnings Survey

Purpose of the statistics: Data input for several sets of short-term economic and structural statistics, representation of short-term trends in gross earnings and working hours (by sex and performance group) as well as information on the short-term economic development, risks to price stability and international competitiveness.