Minimum wage in Greece 2026: €920 gross, what you take home
Since 1 April 2026 the Greek minimum wage is €920 gross a month for full-time salaried staff and €41.09 a day for manual workers.
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The Greek minimum wage for 2026 is €920 gross a month, up 4.55 % on the €880 of 2025, and it applies from 1 April. Greece pays salaries fourteen times a year, so a full-time employee over 30 with no children receives €772 net in each of those payments: €123 goes to e-EFKA, the social security fund, and about €25 to income tax. One dependent child lifts the net to €782, two to €797, and anyone aged 25 or under pays no income tax at all on this wage, keeping €797. If you spread the Christmas and Easter bonuses and the leave allowance over twelve months, the minimum wage is worth €900 a month, the figure to use when comparing with a job abroad. Manual workers paid by the day earn at least €41.09, and each three-year period of service adds 10 % to the minimum. The calculator below shows your own net pay.
Net minimum wage, with seniority increments
Net per payment
€772
| Gross | €920 |
| EFKA | €123 |
| Tax | €25 |
| Net on a 12-month basis | €900 |
Net minimum wage by length of service
| Service | Gross | EFKA | Tax | Net (×14) | Net, 12-month basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No increment | €920 | €123 | €25 | €772 | €900 |
| 1 increment | €1,012 | €135 | €42 | €835 | €974 |
| 2 increments | €1,104 | €148 | €59 | €897 | €1,047 |
| 3 increments | €1,196 | €160 | €77 | €959 | €1,119 |
The table assumes an employee over 30 with no dependent children and fourteen payments. The steps are the ones a Greek payroll office follows: gross times fourteen, minus the employee’s social security, income tax on the 2026 scale, minus the employee tax reduction of article 16 of the Income Tax Code, and the year’s tax spread evenly across the payments. Against the twelve worked examples the Ministry of Labour published with the new minimum wage, our figures differ by at most €1.20 per payment, the effect of rounding.
The “seniority increments” in the first column are called trieties in Greek: each completed three-year period of work adds 10 % to the minimum wage, up to 3 periods. They follow the new minimum automatically, so an employee with two increments moved from €1,104 gross this April without any new contract.
Fourteen payments: reading a Greek salary offer
Newcomers often compare a Greek salary with one from home and conclude it is lower than it is. A Greek contract states a monthly gross that is paid twelve times as salary and roughly twice more as holiday money: the Christmas bonus (doro Christougennon) of one month plus the leave allowance share, the Easter bonus (doro Pascha) of half a month, and the leave allowance (epidoma adeias) of up to half a month. At the minimum wage that is €12,880 gross a year. Our guide to the fourteen salaries explains how to convert an annual offer.
If you are offered an annual package, divide by fourteen to find the monthly gross the payroll will use. Dividing by twelve overstates every payslip and makes the first months look disappointing.
What changed on 1 April 2026
The rise from €880 to €920 is not effective from January. As in previous years, the new minimum applies from 1 April, so salaries for January to March were paid at the old rate. For an employee without children the gain is €28 net per payment, or €388 over a full year of fourteen payments.
The minimum wage also drives other payments. Several benefits of DYPA, the public employment service, are set by reference to it, including the parental leave benefit. The Ministry put the 2025 average salary recorded in the ERGANI system at €1,516, so the minimum is a little over three fifths of the average.
Salaried staff and day workers
There are two minimums. Employees on a monthly salary, mostly office and shop staff, earn at least €920. Manual workers paid by the day earn at least €41.09; twenty-five days a month gives €1,027 gross, slightly above the monthly minimum. The daily wage guide converts a day rate into monthly net pay.
The distinction matters for bonuses: a day worker’s Christmas bonus is 25 daily wages and the Easter bonus 15 daily wages, rather than a fraction of a month. For severance pay, Greece has used a single regime since 2022, counting a manual worker’s month as 22 daily wages.
Under 30, or with children: why net pay differs
Law 5246/2025 changed the tax on low wages more than any recent reform. Taxpayers aged 25 or under pay 0 % on the first two brackets, up to €20,000 of taxable income a year, and the whole annual minimum wage of €12,880 sits inside that band: no income tax, and €797 net instead of €772. From 26 to 30 the rate on those brackets is 9 %. Our page on tax for young workers has the detail.
Children help twice: they cut the rate of the second bracket (18 % with one child, 16 % with two) and they raise the article 16 tax reduction from €777 to €900 and €1,120. With two children, the tax on the minimum wage falls to zero.
What the minimum wage costs an employer
On top of the gross salary, a private employer pays its own social security share of 21.79 %, which is €200 a month at the minimum. The total cost of a minimum-wage employee is €1,120 per payment and €15,687 a year. Of every euro the business spends, the employee keeps about 68.87 % net. The employer cost calculator runs the same sum for any salary.
Every amount on this page comes from the same engine as the main Greek salary calculator, using the parameters in force for 2026: the contribution rates of the e-EFKA circular, the scale of Law 5246/2025 and the article 16 tax reduction. If a rate changes, every table changes with it.