{"id":107333,"date":"2011-06-20T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=107333"},"modified":"2011-06-20T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:11:53","slug":"luxembourg-highest-minimum-wage-in-europe-about-30-times-higher-than-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/20\/luxembourg-highest-minimum-wage-in-europe-about-30-times-higher-than-in-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg Highest Minimum Wage in Europe, About 30 Times Higher than in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 1,757.56 EUR, Luxembourg has the highest national (gross) monthly minimum wage in Europe, according to a study by the Turkish Employers&#8217; Association of Metal Industries (MESS), which surveyed monthly minimum wages in 21 EU member states, as well as Turkey and the US, comparing rates over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MESS study, among those countries surveyed, Slovenia had the greatest growth in minimum wages between Jan. 2009 and Jan. 2011 \u2014 it grew by 26.97% and comprises 748.10 EUR. The second state with the greatest growth was Turkey \u2014 minimum wages rose by 24.18% between Jan. 2009 and Jan. 2011, comprising 384.89 EUR.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s Western European countries that have the highest national minimum wage. According to survey results, Ireland follows Luxembourg (1,461.85 EUR, 0% increase), then Belgium (1,415.24 EUR, 2% increase), followed by France (1,365 EUR, 3.33% increase). The lowest national minimum wage among EU countries surveyed was found in Bulgaria, at 123 EUR.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison purposes, it&#8217;s helpful to note that minimum wage in the US was noted at being equivalent to 940.48 EUR. Between Jan. 2009 and Jan. 2011, minimum wage went up by 15.28% in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the national minimum wage in Armenia is 32,500 AMD, which is equivalent to 60 EUR. Prior to Jan. 2011, minimum wage in Armenia was 30,000 AMD (about 55.35 EUR).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1,757.56 EUR, Luxembourg has the highest national (gross) monthly minimum wage in Europe, according to&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28517,28518,17174,28516,16326,13501,28519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}