Statistics in Focus: Population and social conditions. MINIMUM WAGES EU Member States and Candidate Countries, January 2003.

Abstract

This article presents data on statutory national minimum wages in the Member States of the European Union (MS) and in the Candidate Countries (CC). There is a national minimum wage in 9 of the 15 Member States (Belgium, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom) and in 12 of the 13 Candidate Countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Slovak Republic and Turkey). See the Summaries of the statutory national minimum wages in the countries, together with the Methodological Notes