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Database on minimum wages for low-paid workers in collective agreements

The database provides access to minimum wage rates defined in collective agreements in the EU and Norway. In the first half of 2025, an update of the database was carried out.

Background

The database was developed and is maintained by Eurofound. It covers collective agreement texts from 2015 to 2025 related to a selection of low-paid sectors from all 27 EU Member States, except for Poland where data is only available until 2022. In summer 2025 the database contains coded minimum wage rates from 678 series of collective agreement texts (and where available, also the highest rates in these agreements were coded).

The dataset below includes all collectively agreed minimum wage rates available in the database, except for those marked as confidential, along with metadata on the corresponding collective agreements and sectors. For a description of the fields in the data file, please refer to the codebook of the database.

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The following experts at Eurofound can be contacted for questions relating to the database.

Christine Aumayr-Pintar

Senior research manager
Working life research unit

Christine Aumayr-Pintar er seniorforskningsleder i Eurofounds arbejdslivsenhed. Hun koordinerer Eurofounds forskning i social dialog og arbejdsmarkedsrelationer og fører tilsyn med netværket af Eurofounds korrespondenter (NEC). Hendes primære forskningsekspertise – anskuet fra et komparativt EU-synspunkt – er centreret om mindstelønninger, kollektivt forhandlet løn og løngennemsigtighed mellem kønnene. Før hun kom til Eurofound i 2009, var hun arbejdsmarkeds- og regionaløkonomiforsker ved Joanneum Research i Østrig. Hun har en kandidatgrad i økonomi og en ph.d. i samfundsvidenskab/økonomi efter at have studeret økonomi i Graz, Wien og Jönköping.

Felix Appler

Research support officer
Working life research unit

Felix Appler er forskningsstøttemedarbejder i Eurofounds arbejdslivsenhed. Hans arbejde fokuserer på arbejdsmarkedsrelationer, mindstelønninger og opbygning af databaser forbundet med disse emner. Tidligere arbejdede han for Tysklands føderale statistiske kontor (Destatis) og Verdensbanken i Østafrika med husstandsundersøgelser og forskning i arbejdsmarkeder og fattigdom. Felix har en kandidatgrad i økonomi fra universitetet i Bonn.

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