Daily wage in Greece (2026): from €41.09 a day to monthly net pay
Manual workers paid by the day in Greece earn at least €41.09 gross per day in 2026, and their bonuses are counted in daily wages too.
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The Greek minimum daily wage, the imeromisthio, is €41.09 gross from 1 April 2026. It mostly applies to manual workers in construction, farming, warehouses, cleaning and seasonal hospitality, while office and shop staff usually have a monthly salary. Monthly pay depends on the days you work: twenty-six days at the minimum give €1,068 gross and roughly €873 net, twenty-one days €863 and €732, for someone over 30 without children. Bonuses are expressed in days rather than months: 25 daily wages at Christmas, 15 at Easter and up to 13 for the leave allowance, which at the minimum come to €1,070, €642 and €534 gross, the two holiday bonuses including the leave share. Seasonal workers receive pro-rata bonuses when the season ends. For severance, a day worker’s month counts as 22 daily wages under the single scale in force since 2022. Use the calculator below with your own rate and days.
From a daily wage to monthly net
Net per month
€845
| Gross per month | €1,027 |
| Net per day | €33.81 |
| Minimum daily wage | €41.09 |
Monthly gross and net for common day rates
| Day rate | Gross, 22 days | Net, 22 days | Gross, 26 days | Net, 26 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| €41.09 | €904 | €761 | €1,068 | €873 |
| €45.00 | €990 | €820 | €1,170 | €942 |
| €50.00 | €1,100 | €894 | €1,300 | €1,030 |
| €55.00 | €1,210 | €969 | €1,430 | €1,117 |
| €65.00 | €1,430 | €1,117 | €1,690 | €1,291 |
| €80.00 | €1,760 | €1,335 | €2,080 | €1,534 |
Twenty-two days is roughly a five-day week, twenty-six a six-day week. Net figures assume the month repeats through the year with the usual bonuses, an employee over 30 and no children, and use the same deductions as Greek payroll: 13.37 % social security and income tax on the annualised figure, minus the employee tax credit. If your rate is above the minimum, type it into the calculator; the rows for higher rates are only examples.
Day workers often ask why their net per day falls slightly in a busy month. It is the annualisation: Greek withholding treats each month’s pay as if it repeated all year, so a month with more days pushes part of the income into a higher tax band, and the employee tax credit begins to shrink above €12,000 of annual taxable income.
Seasonal work: what you are owed when the season ends
Many people work a Greek tourist season on daily wages, from spring to autumn. The holiday bonuses follow you even if you never reach Christmas or Easter on the payroll. The Christmas bonus is earned between 1 May and 31 December at 2 daily wages per 19 days of employment; the Easter bonus between 1 January and 30 April at 1 daily wage per 8 days. A season from 1 April to 31 October on €50.00 a day earns €195 of Easter bonus for April and €1,009 of Christmas bonus for May to October, both including the leave allowance share. The Christmas share is paid when the contract ends, calculated on your pay at that date.
Leave works the same way: days of annual leave you did not take are paid with your final wages. Ask for a final statement that lists the days worked, the bonus shares and the leave paid out, and check it against the Christmas bonus calculator and the Easter bonus calculator, which accept daily wages.
Bonuses and leave allowance in daily wages
Total per year
€2,246
| Christmas bonus (25 days) | €1,070 |
| Easter bonus (15 days) | €642 |
| Leave allowance (13 days) | €534 |
Bonuses counted in days
A salaried employee’s Christmas bonus is one month’s pay; a day worker’s is 25 daily wages. The Easter bonus is 15 daily wages instead of half a month, and the leave allowance is capped at 13 daily wages instead of half a month. On a six-day week those numbers land close to the monthly equivalents, which is the point. The Labour Inspectorate adds that both holiday bonuses include a share of the leave allowance, 4.17 % on top, which our figures always include. Absences without good reason, strike days and unpaid leave do not count towards the bonus period; maternity leave does.
Severance on a daily wage
| Years with the employer | Months of pay | Without notice (€50.00/day) | With written notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | €2,567 | €1,283 |
| 8 | 5 | €6,417 | €3,208 |
| 15 | 11 | €14,117 | €7,058 |
Law 4808/2021 (article 64) ended the separate dismissal rules for manual workers from 1 January 2022. Day workers now use the same scale as salaried staff, in months of pay, with one month valued at 22 daily wages, plus one sixth for the bonuses. Written notice halves the payment, as for everyone else; nothing is due in the first twelve months, which count as a probation period. The manual workers’ severance guide covers the rules, and the calculator below gives a quick figure.
Severance on a daily wage
Severance without notice
€7,700
| Monthly pay (× 22) | €1,100 |
| Months of pay | 6 |
Reading a day worker’s payslip
A Greek payslip for a day worker shows the number of days, the daily rate and their product, then the deductions. Check three things: that the days match the days you worked, that the rate is at least €41.09, and that the employee contribution is 13.37 % of gross. If you want the net with your age and children, enter the monthly gross in the main Greek salary calculator, or compare with the salaried minimum wage if you are weighing a monthly contract.