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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 es directora de investigación sénior en la unidad de vida laboral de Eurofound. Coordina la investigación de Eurofound sobre diálogo social y relaciones laborales y supervisa la Red de Corresponsales de Eurofound (NEC). Su principal experiencia en investigación, abordada desde un punto de vista comparativo a escala de la UE, se centra en los salarios mínimos, la remuneración negociada colectivamente y la transparencia salarial de género. Antes de incorporarse a Eurofound en 2009, fue investigadora de mercados laborales y economía regional en Joanneum Research en Austria. Obtuvo una maestría en Economía y un doctorado en Ciencias Sociales / Economía después de estudiar economía en Graz, Viena y Jönköping.

Felix Appler

Research support officer
Working life research unit

Felix Appler es responsable de apoyo a la investigación en la unidad de vida laboral de Eurofound. Su trabajo se centra en las relaciones laborales, los salarios mínimos y la creación de bases de datos asociadas a estos temas. Anteriormente, trabajó en la Oficina Federal de Estadística de Alemania (Destatis) y en el Banco Mundial en África Oriental realizando encuestas de hogares e investigaciones sobre los mercados laborales y la pobreza. Felix tiene una maestría en Economía de la Universidad de Bonn.

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