Minimum wage

The minimum wage is the legal floor for full-time pay: no employee may be paid below it. It is set by ministerial decision and adjusted from time to time. It is a gross amount — EFKA contributions and tax are levied on top of it, just like any salary — and, like all private-sector pay, it is paid over 14 periods a year.

The 2026 figure

From 1 April 2026 the monthly minimum wage for salaried staff is set at 920,00 € (Joint Ministerial Decision No. 8934, Government Gazette B΄ 1759/27-3-2026). Alongside the monthly salary for staff, the same decision also sets a separate minimum daily rate for manual workers. For January to March 2026 a minimum wage of 880,00 € applied, carried over from 2025; that figure is held provisionally and will be confirmed against the prior decision at review.

From the gross minimum to net

The minimum wage is the starting point, not the take-home figure. Here too the employee’s EFKA contributions (13,37%) come off first, followed by the FMY tax. At these low incomes the tax is usually small or zero: the tax reduction creates a tax-free threshold of roughly 8.633,33 € a year for an employee with no children, and an annual income at the level of the minimum wage sits near or below that threshold. To see the estimated net of a minimum-wage salary, enter the amount in the calculator on the home page.

Because the minimum wage is paid over 14 periods, the annual pay is more than twelve times the monthly figure: it includes the Christmas and Easter bonuses and the holiday allowance. The calculator takes this 14-salary basis into account both in annualizing the tax and in the overall picture.

The values come from named primary sources, but they have not been through this site’s own review and sign-off — do not use them for a real, accounting or tax decision. For an official amount, go to the cited source or the responsible authority.

The full content of this page is still in preparation and subject to review.