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.
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.
The following experts at Eurofound can be contacted for questions relating to the database.
Christine Aumayr-Pintar
Senior research managerIs bainisteoir taighde sinsearach í Christine Aumayr-Pintar san aonad Saol Oibre ag Eurofound. Comhordaíonn sí taighde Eurofound ar idirphlé sóisialta agus ar chaidreamh tionsclaíoch agus déanann sí maoirseacht ar Líonra na gComhfhreagraithe Eurofound (NEC). Díríonn a príomhshaineolas taighde – a chuirtear i ngleic léi ó thaobh comparáideach ar fud an AE – ar íosphá agus ar phá comhchaibidlíochta agus ar thrédhearcacht pá inscne. Sula ndeachaigh sí isteach i Eurofound in 2009, bhí sí ina taighdeoir ar mhargaí saothair agus ar eacnamaíocht réigiúnach ag Joanneum Research san Ostair. Ghnóthaigh sí céim Mháistir san Eacnamaíocht agus PhD san Eolaíocht Shóisialta/Eacnamaíocht tar éis di staidéar a dhéanamh ar eacnamaíocht i Graz, Vín agus Jönköping.
Felix Appler
Research support officerIs oifigeach tacaíochta taighde é Felix Appler san aonad Saoil Oibre ag Eurofound. Díríonn a chuid oibre ar chaidreamh tionsclaíoch, pá íosta agus bunachair shonraí a thógáil a bhaineann leis na topaicí seo. Roimhe seo, d'oibrigh sé in Oifig Staidrimh Chónaidhme na Gearmáine (Destatis) agus sa Bhanc Domhanda in Oirthear na hAfraice ag déanamh suirbhéanna teaghlaigh agus taighde ar mhargaí saothair agus bochtaineacht. Tá céim Mháistreachta san Eacnamaíocht ag Felix ó Ollscoil Bonn.
