To see how the minimum wage differs around the world, we’ve visualized data fromPicodi, which includes values for 67 countries as of January 2023. Monthly Minimum Wage, by Country The following table includes all of the data used in this infographic. ...
South Africa [+]20244,776.9R$261.6-3.49% Zambia [+]20241.3$0.1-28.57% Zimbabwe [+]20243,800.1ZWL$$0.6-99.85% Minimum wage-NMW Is the lowest salary that workers must receive for the legal working day. The Minimum wage data we publish are monthly, assuming a salary of twelve monthly paymen...
BRASILIA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Thursday the minimum monthly wage will increase from the current 1,302 reais to 1,320 reais (251 U.S. dollars) starting May. Lula said his administration would set a new rule for the minimum salary taki...
The living wage in Spain is calculated to be about EUR 810 a month in 2017, a shade above the monthly minimum wage paid to most employees. Trade Unions in Spain are campaigning for further increases to the minimum wage, to make the monthly salary, when calculated over 14 payments, above ...
Collective poverty is usually related to economic underdevelopment. The total resources of manydeveloping nationsin Africa, Asia, and South and Central America would be insufficient to support the population adequately even if they were equally divided among all of the citizens. Proposed remedies are ...
Several recent studies have found negative correlations with respect to the impact on inequality, that is, the MW reduces inequality, in Turkey, Brazil, Ecuador, and South Africa (Bakis and Polat 2023; Saboia et al. 2021; Herrero-Olarte 2022, 2023; Bassier and Ranchhod 2024), and in a...