According to the European Statistics Office, 13 EU Member States had, as of January 2022, minimum wages below €1,000 per month, namely: Bulgaria (€332), Latvia (€500), Romania (€515), Hungary (€542), Croatia (€624), Slovakia (€646), Czech Republic (€652), Estonia (€654), Poland (€655), Lithuania (€730), Greece (€774), Malta (€792) and Portugal (€823).

It should be noted that the minimum wage set in Portugal for 2022 is €705 euros, but paid in 14 months - with the addition of holiday and Christmas allowances -, with Eurostat dividing the total amount by 12 months, raising the value to €823.

In Slovenia and Spain – €1,074 and €1,126, respectively – minimum wages were slightly above €1,000 per month while in the remaining six of the 21 Member States values ​​were above €1,500 per month: France (€1,603), Germany (€1,621), Belgium (€1,658), the Netherlands (€1,725), Ireland (€1,775) and Luxembourg (€2,257 euros).

In Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Italy, Finland and Sweden, there is no national minimum wage.