Part-time pay in Greece (2026): pro-rata wages, extra hours and your rights
Part-time employees in Greece are paid in proportion to their hours, and every hour beyond the agreed schedule earns a 12 % premium.
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Greek law treats a part-time employee as a full-time colleague on fewer hours: same rate, same rights, pay in proportion. With the €920 monthly minimum for a 40-hour week, 16 hours give at least €368 gross and 25 hours €575, which leaves €319 and €498 net per payment once the 13.37 % social security contribution is deducted; on these amounts the employee tax credit wipes out income tax. You are still paid fourteen times a year and receive paid leave and the leave allowance. If your employer needs you beyond the agreed hours, each extra hour is paid 12 % above your normal rate. The contract must be in writing and notified to the Labour Inspectorate within eight days, otherwise the job is presumed full-time. In companies with more than 20 staff, a full-timer with a year’s service can ask to go part-time and keeps the right to come back. Use the calculator below with your own weekly hours.
Minimum part-time pay by weekly hours
| Hours a week | Share of full time | Gross per month | EFKA | Net per payment | Net per year (14) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 20 % | €184 | €25 | €159 | €2,232 |
| 12 | 30 % | €276 | €37 | €239 | €3,347 |
| 16 | 40 % | €368 | €49 | €319 | €4,463 |
| 20 | 50 % | €460 | €62 | €398 | €5,579 |
| 25 | 63 % | €575 | €77 | €498 | €6,974 |
| 28 | 70 % | €644 | €86 | €558 | €7,811 |
| 32 | 80 % | €736 | €98 | €636 | €8,900 |
| 36 | 90 % | €828 | €111 | €708 | €9,911 |
The table scales the full-time minimum wage to the hours shown, assuming a 40-hour full-time week, an employee over 30 and no children. Income tax is zero on every row because the article 16 employee tax credit, €777 a year without children, is larger than the scale tax at these incomes. Social security has no such threshold: 13.37 % is deducted from the first euro, which is why net pay on short contracts is always 86.63 % of gross.
If the full-time salary for your role is above the minimum, the same proportion applies to it. A job advertised at €2,400 full time becomes €1,800 gross on 30 hours, or €1,360 net per payment. The calculator at the top takes both inputs, so you can check an offer before you sign.
The contract: written, notified, continuous
Part-time work in Greece can be agreed by the day, the week, the fortnight or the month, for a fixed term or open-ended, as long as the hours are fewer than a comparable full-timer’s. The agreement must be written and notified to the local Labour Inspectorate within eight days. If either step is missing, the law presumes full-time employment, which means the employer must be able to justify paying you less than a full-time wage. Keep a copy of your contract and check that the hours on it match the hours you actually work.
Shorter days must be worked in one continuous block. A split schedule of two hours in the morning and two in the evening is not allowed, except in a few listed jobs such as school and nursery transport and private tutoring schools. Night work, Sundays and public holidays are paid with the same legal premiums as for full-time staff. And an employer who dismisses you because you turned down a proposal to go part-time has made an invalid dismissal.
Extra hours and the 12 % premium
Hospitality and retail run on flexible rotas, so this is the rule part-timers meet most often. If the business needs more work than agreed, you are expected to provide it when you are able to and refusing would be in bad faith. You can say no when the extra work happens as a matter of routine. Each extra hour is paid at the agreed rate plus 12 %: on €9.50 an hour, 6 extra hours in a month come to €63.84 gross instead of €57.00.
When the extra hours stop being occasional, the cleaner solution is a new written agreement with more contracted hours. That protects you twice: your base pay, bonuses and leave allowance rise with it, and a later dismissal or severance calculation starts from the higher figure.
Extra hours on a part-time contract
Gross pay for the extra hours
€78.40
| Per extra hour | €7.84 |
| Without the premium | €70.00 |
| Value of the premium | €8.40 |
Holiday, bonuses and seniority
Part-timers receive paid annual leave and the leave allowance, calculated on the pay they would have earned while working. Greek labour inspectors also state that all employees are entitled to the Christmas bonus and the Easter bonus, with no exception for part-time contracts. On a 25-hour minimum-wage contract the leave allowance is up to €288 and the Easter bonus €299. Time worked part-time counts as service in the same way as for a full-timer, which matters for seniority increments and for the severance calculator.
Moving between full-time and part-time
In a company employing more than twenty people, a full-time employee with one complete calendar year of service can ask to convert to part-time, stating the duration and the type of arrangement, and keeps the right to return to full-time. The employer may refuse only for genuine business needs; silence for a month counts as a yes. In the other direction, part-timers have priority when the same company offers a full-time post on equal terms in their category. Once you know your new hours, run the pro-rata gross through the main Greek salary calculator to see the net with your age and children.