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The legal minimum wage per hour if you are 17

From 1 July 2026 the statutory minimum is EUR 5.92 gross for every hour you actually work. Youth rates are low, which is exactly why they get ignored: check your payslip against this, because at 17 an underpayment of fifty cents an hour is real money over a year.

EUR 5.92per hour


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