LuxembourgMinimum wage increases by €450 over last ten years

Thomas Toussaint
A new record will be achieved in January 2021, when the minimum wage will once again increase, as Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced on Friday.
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In ten years, Luxembourg’s minimum wage will have risen by around €444 for unskilled workers, and by €533 for skilled workers.

While it amounted to €1,757.56 for an unskilled employee in January 2011 (and €2,109.07 for a skilled employee), the minimum wage has undergone various, and sometimes unequal, changes.
Hence the two increases in 2013, before it was fixed in 2015. A further increase occurred in 2017.

On 1 January 2021, for its tenth increase in ten years, it will reach €2,201 gross (and around €2,642 for qualified employees).

Luxembourg is one of the most generous countries in Europe: it has one of the highest minimum wages in Europe, far ahead of Ireland with €1,706.90.

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