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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 é gestora sénior de investigação na unidade de Vida Profissional da Eurofound. Coordena a investigação da Eurofound sobre o diálogo social e as relações laborais e supervisiona a Rede de Correspondentes da Eurofound (NEC). Sua principal experiência em pesquisa – abordada de um ponto de vista comparativo em toda a UE – centra-se em salários mínimos, remuneração negociada coletivamente e transparência salarial entre homens e mulheres. Antes de ingressar na Eurofound em 2009, foi investigadora de mercados de trabalho e economia regional na Joanneum Research na Áustria. Ela obteve um mestrado em Economia e um doutorado em Ciências Sociais/Economia, tendo estudado economia em Graz, Viena e Jönköping.

Felix Appler

Research support officer
Working life research unit

Felix Appler é responsável pelo apoio à investigação na unidade de Vida Profissional da Eurofound. Seu trabalho se concentra em relações industriais, salários mínimos e construção de bancos de dados associados a esses tópicos. Anteriormente, trabalhou no Departamento Federal de Estatística da Alemanha (Destatis) e no Banco Mundial na África Oriental, realizando pesquisas domiciliares e pesquisas sobre mercados de trabalho e pobreza. Felix possui mestrado em Economia pela Universidade de Bonn.

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