Due to the recent minimum wage increases in Portugal, the country has left the group of Member States with minimum wages under €500 a month.
Portugal now has the sixth lowest minimum wage, soaring above those earned in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovakia, reveals Eurostat.
In Portugal the minimum wage now is €589, due to the increase of €84 in October 2014.
Taking into account the 13th and 14th months, the country is placed in the middle group of Member States where minimum wages are between €500 and €1,000 a month.
Portugal remains behind debt plagued Greece where its lowest paid workers earn €684 a month.
Eurostat evaluated the 22 EU countries that have a minimum wage policy and used data from 1 January 2015.
Bulgaria gets the poorest deal with €184 euros and Luxembourg is the place to be with a minimum wage of €1,923 per month.
Between 2008 and 2015, Greece was the only member state in which the minimum wage decreased, down 14%.
In Ireland which also had a bailout, the minimum wage of €1,462 euros has not changed in the last seven years. Portugal recorded an increase of 19% in the same period.
Comments
People say Portugal is a poor country, who are they looking at when they say that, it is important for Portugal to have so many poor people, it helps others get rich or richer, but not me, i have to pay.
How such vast disparity exists decades after the less developed poor paying member countries SHOULD have got their acts together and be paying all their citizens better.
Not just their elites !!