Global Minimum Wage (Hourly) Ranking

Rank Country Name City Continent Price
1 KuwaitKuwait KuwaitCity Asia £182
2 ArgentinaArgentina Mendoza South America £124
3 ArgentinaArgentina BuenosAires South America £75
4 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva Europe £22
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bern Europe £21
6 DenmarkDenmark Copenhagen Europe £15
7 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Seattle North America £14
8 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Denver North America £14
9 UnitedStatesUnitedStates SanFrancisco North America £14
10 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Honolulu North America £14
11 UnitedStatesUnitedStates WashingtonDc North America £13
12 MexicoMexico Guadalajara North America £13
12 MexicoMexico Tijuana North America £13
14 UnitedStatesUnitedStates SanDiego North America £13
15 UnitedStatesUnitedStates LosAngeles North America £13
16 IrelandIreland Dublin Europe £12
17 NetherlandsNetherlands TheHague Europe £12
18 AustraliaAustralia Sydney Australia Pacific £12
18 AustraliaAustralia Melbourne Australia Pacific £12
18 AustraliaAustralia Brisbane Australia Pacific £12
18 AustraliaAustralia Perth Australia Pacific £12
18 AustraliaAustralia Adelaide Australia Pacific £12
18 AustraliaAustralia Canberra Australia Pacific £12
24 BelgiumBelgium Brussels Europe £12
25 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam Europe £12
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom London Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Manchester Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Birmingham Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Edinburgh Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Glasgow Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Leeds Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Liverpool Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Bristol Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Cambridge Europe £11
26 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Oxford Europe £11
36 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Boston North America £11
37 NetherlandsNetherlands Rotterdam Europe £11
38 SwedenSweden Gothenburg Europe £11
39 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Phoenix North America £11
40 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Portland North America £11
41 SwedenSweden Stockholm Europe £11
42 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Chicago North America £11
43 GermanyGermany Berlin Europe £11
43 GermanyGermany Munich Europe £11
43 GermanyGermany Frankfurt Europe £11
43 GermanyGermany Hamburg Europe £11
43 GermanyGermany Cologne Europe £11
43 GermanyGermany Stuttgart Europe £11
43 GermanyGermany Leipzig Europe £11
50 MexicoMexico Monterrey North America £10
50 MexicoMexico MexicoCity North America £10
52 AustriaAustria Vienna Europe £10
53 FranceFrance Paris Europe £10
53 FranceFrance Lyon Europe £10
53 FranceFrance Marseille Europe £10
53 FranceFrance Toulouse Europe £10
53 FranceFrance Nice Europe £10
53 FranceFrance Bordeaux Europe £10
59 NewZealandNewZealand Auckland Australia Pacific £10
59 NewZealandNewZealand Wellington Australia Pacific £10
61 SpainSpain Barcelona Europe £9
62 FinlandFinland Helsinki Europe £9
63 IsraelIsrael TelAviv Asia £9
63 IsraelIsrael Jerusalem Asia £9
65 CanadaCanada Vancouver North America £9
66 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Miami North America £9
66 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Orlando North America £9
68 SpainSpain Valencia Europe £9
68 SpainSpain Madrid Europe £9
70 ItalyItaly Rome Europe £9
70 ItalyItaly Venice Europe £9
70 ItalyItaly Milan Europe £9
73 SingaporeSingapore Singapore Asia £9
74 CanadaCanada Toronto North America £9
74 CanadaCanada Ottawa North America £9
76 NorwayNorway Oslo Europe £9
77 UnitedStatesUnitedStates LasVegas North America £9
78 ItalyItaly Naples Europe £8
79 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Anchorage North America £8
80 CanadaCanada Calgary North America £8
81 ItalyItaly Turin Europe £8
82 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Minneapolis North America £8
83 ThailandThailand Bangkok Asia £8
83 ThailandThailand ChiangMai Asia £8
83 ThailandThailand Phuket Asia £8
86 CanadaCanada Edmonton North America £8
87 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Detroit North America £8
88 PortugalPortugal Lisbon Europe £8
88 PortugalPortugal Porto Europe £8
90 PhilippinesPhilippines Manila Asia £7
91 HungaryHungary Budapest Europe £6
92 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Seoul Asia £6
92 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Busan Asia £6
92 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Incheon Asia £6
92 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Daegu Asia £6
96 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Philadelphia North America £5
96 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Atlanta North America £5
96 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Houston North America £5
96 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Dallas North America £5
96 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Austin North America £5
101 PolandPoland Warsaw Europe £5
101 PolandPoland Wroclaw Europe £5
103 JapanJapan Tokyo Asia £5
104 JapanJapan Osaka Asia £5
105 PhilippinesPhilippines Davao Asia £5
106 JapanJapan Sapporo Asia £5
107 JapanJapan Nagoya Asia £5
108 JapanJapan Kyoto Asia £5
109 JapanJapan Kobe Asia £5
110 JapanJapan Hiroshima Asia £5
111 CubaCuba Havana North America £5
112 JapanJapan Sendai Asia £5
113 TurkeyTurkey Istanbul Europe £5
113 TurkeyTurkey Ankara Europe £5
113 TurkeyTurkey Izmir Europe £5
113 TurkeyTurkey Antalya Europe £5
117 JapanJapan Fukuoka Asia £4
118 GreeceGreece Athens Europe £4
119 JapanJapan Naha Asia £4
120 TaiwanTaiwan Taipei Asia £4
120 TaiwanTaiwan Taichung Asia £4
120 TaiwanTaiwan Kaohsiung Asia £4
123 CzechiaCzechia Prague Europe £4
124 ColombiaColombia Bogota South America £3
124 ColombiaColombia Cali South America £3
126 ColombiaColombia Medellin South America £3
127 QatarQatar Doha Asia £3
128 UnitedArabEmiratesUnitedArabEmirates Dubai Asia £3
128 UnitedArabEmiratesUnitedArabEmirates AbuDhabi Asia £3
130 TurkeyTurkey Bursa Europe £3
131 SaudiArabiaSaudiArabia Riyadh Asia £3
131 SaudiArabiaSaudiArabia Jeddah Asia £3
131 SaudiArabiaSaudiArabia Dammam Asia £3
134 ChinaChina Shanghai Asia £3
135 NepalNepal Kathmandu Asia £3
136 ChinaChina Beijing Asia £3
137 RomaniaRomania Bucharest Europe £3
138 ChinaChina Guangzhou Asia £3
139 ChinaChina Nanjing Asia £3
140 ChinaChina Shenzhen Asia £3
141 ChinaChina Hangzhou Asia £2
141 ChinaChina Suzhou Asia £2
143 ChinaChina Chengdu Asia £2
143 ChinaChina Qingdao Asia £2
145 PeruPeru Lima South America £2
146 ChinaChina Chongqing Asia £2
146 ChinaChina Wuhan Asia £2
146 ChinaChina Xiamen Asia £2
149 BrazilBrazil RioDeJaneiro South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil Brasilia South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil Salvador South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil Fortaleza South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil BeloHorizonte South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil Manaus South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil Curitiba South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil Recife South America £2
149 BrazilBrazil PortoAlegre South America £2
158 ChinaChina Dalian Asia £2
158 ChinaChina Shenyang Asia £2
160 ChinaChina Harbin Asia £2
160 ChinaChina Changsha Asia £2
160 ChinaChina Zhengzhou Asia £2
163 RussiaRussia Moscow Europe £2
164 ChinaChina Kunming Asia £2
165 ChinaChina Tianjin Asia £2
166 RussiaRussia Sochi Europe £2
166 RussiaRussia Vladivostok Europe £2
166 RussiaRussia Kaliningrad Europe £2
169 ChinaChina Xi'an Asia £2
170 KenyaKenya Nairobi Africa £2
171 RussiaRussia Novosibirsk Europe £2
171 RussiaRussia Yekaterinburg Europe £2
171 RussiaRussia Kazan Europe £2
174 KazakhstanKazakhstan Almaty Asia £1
174 KazakhstanKazakhstan Astana Asia £1
176 MongoliaMongolia Ulaanbaatar Asia £1
177 FijiFiji Suva Australia Pacific £1
178 MoroccoMorocco Rabat Africa £1
179 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica Durban Africa £1
180 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica CapeTown Africa £1
180 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica Pretoria Africa £1
182 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica Johannesburg Africa £1
183 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca Africa £1
183 MoroccoMorocco Marrakech Africa £1
185 GhanaGhana Accra Africa £1
186 SriLankaSriLanka Colombo Asia £1
187 IndonesiaIndonesia Jakarta Asia £1
188 MalaysiaMalaysia KualaLumpur Asia £1
188 MalaysiaMalaysia JohorBahru Asia £1
190 EgyptEgypt Luxor Africa £1
191 MalaysiaMalaysia Penang Asia £1
192 KenyaKenya Mombasa Africa £1
193 TanzaniaTanzania DarEsSalaam Africa £1
194 NigeriaNigeria Lagos Africa £1
195 IndonesiaIndonesia Surabaya Asia £1
196 VietnamVietnam Hanoi Asia £1
196 VietnamVietnam DaNang Asia £1
198 UkraineUkraine Kyiv Europe £1
199 UzbekistanUzbekistan Tashkent Asia £1
200 PakistanPakistan Islamabad Asia £1
200 PakistanPakistan Lahore Asia £1
202 IndonesiaIndonesia Bandung Asia £1
203 PakistanPakistan Karachi Asia £1
204 BangladeshBangladesh Dhaka Asia £0
205 BurkinaFasoBurkinaFaso Ouagadougou Africa £0
206 IndiaIndia Hyderabad Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Chennai Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Kolkata Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Pune Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Ahmedabad Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Surat Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Lucknow Asia £0
207 IndiaIndia Kochi Asia £0
214 IndiaIndia Delhi Asia £0
214 IndiaIndia Mumbai Asia £0
214 IndiaIndia Jaipur Asia £0
217 NigeriaNigeria Abuja Africa £0
218 EgyptEgypt Cairo Africa £0
219 EthiopiaEthiopia AddisAbaba Africa £0
220 NigeriaNigeria PortHarcourt Africa £0
221 IranIran Tehran Asia £0
221 IranIran Mashhad Asia £0
Rank Country Name City Continent Price
1 IranIran Tehran Asia £0
1 IranIran Mashhad Asia £0
3 NigeriaNigeria PortHarcourt Africa £0
4 EthiopiaEthiopia AddisAbaba Africa £0
5 EgyptEgypt Cairo Africa £0
6 NigeriaNigeria Abuja Africa £0
7 IndiaIndia Delhi Asia £0
7 IndiaIndia Mumbai Asia £0
7 IndiaIndia Jaipur Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Chennai Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Kolkata Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Pune Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Ahmedabad Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Surat Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Lucknow Asia £0
10 IndiaIndia Kochi Asia £0
17 IndiaIndia Hyderabad Asia £0
18 BurkinaFasoBurkinaFaso Ouagadougou Africa £0
19 BangladeshBangladesh Dhaka Asia £0
20 PakistanPakistan Karachi Asia £1
21 IndonesiaIndonesia Bandung Asia £1
22 PakistanPakistan Islamabad Asia £1
22 PakistanPakistan Lahore Asia £1
24 UzbekistanUzbekistan Tashkent Asia £1
25 UkraineUkraine Kyiv Europe £1
26 VietnamVietnam Hanoi Asia £1
26 VietnamVietnam DaNang Asia £1
28 IndonesiaIndonesia Surabaya Asia £1
29 NigeriaNigeria Lagos Africa £1
30 TanzaniaTanzania DarEsSalaam Africa £1
31 KenyaKenya Mombasa Africa £1
32 MalaysiaMalaysia Penang Asia £1
33 EgyptEgypt Luxor Africa £1
34 MalaysiaMalaysia KualaLumpur Asia £1
34 MalaysiaMalaysia JohorBahru Asia £1
36 IndonesiaIndonesia Jakarta Asia £1
37 SriLankaSriLanka Colombo Asia £1
38 GhanaGhana Accra Africa £1
39 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca Africa £1
39 MoroccoMorocco Marrakech Africa £1
41 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica Johannesburg Africa £1
42 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica CapeTown Africa £1
42 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica Pretoria Africa £1
44 SouthAfricaSouthAfrica Durban Africa £1
45 MoroccoMorocco Rabat Africa £1
46 FijiFiji Suva Australia Pacific £1
47 MongoliaMongolia Ulaanbaatar Asia £1
48 KazakhstanKazakhstan Almaty Asia £1
48 KazakhstanKazakhstan Astana Asia £1
50 RussiaRussia Novosibirsk Europe £2
50 RussiaRussia Yekaterinburg Europe £2
50 RussiaRussia Kazan Europe £2
53 KenyaKenya Nairobi Africa £2
54 ChinaChina Xi'an Asia £2
55 RussiaRussia Sochi Europe £2
55 RussiaRussia Vladivostok Europe £2
55 RussiaRussia Kaliningrad Europe £2
58 ChinaChina Tianjin Asia £2
59 ChinaChina Kunming Asia £2
60 RussiaRussia Moscow Europe £2
61 ChinaChina Harbin Asia £2
61 ChinaChina Changsha Asia £2
61 ChinaChina Zhengzhou Asia £2
64 ChinaChina Dalian Asia £2
64 ChinaChina Shenyang Asia £2
66 BrazilBrazil RioDeJaneiro South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil Brasilia South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil Salvador South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil Fortaleza South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil BeloHorizonte South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil Manaus South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil Curitiba South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil Recife South America £2
66 BrazilBrazil PortoAlegre South America £2
75 ChinaChina Chongqing Asia £2
75 ChinaChina Wuhan Asia £2
75 ChinaChina Xiamen Asia £2
78 PeruPeru Lima South America £2
79 ChinaChina Chengdu Asia £2
79 ChinaChina Qingdao Asia £2
81 ChinaChina Hangzhou Asia £2
81 ChinaChina Suzhou Asia £2
83 ChinaChina Shenzhen Asia £3
84 ChinaChina Nanjing Asia £3
85 ChinaChina Guangzhou Asia £3
86 RomaniaRomania Bucharest Europe £3
87 ChinaChina Beijing Asia £3
88 NepalNepal Kathmandu Asia £3
89 ChinaChina Shanghai Asia £3
90 SaudiArabiaSaudiArabia Riyadh Asia £3
90 SaudiArabiaSaudiArabia Jeddah Asia £3
90 SaudiArabiaSaudiArabia Dammam Asia £3
93 TurkeyTurkey Bursa Europe £3
94 UnitedArabEmiratesUnitedArabEmirates Dubai Asia £3
94 UnitedArabEmiratesUnitedArabEmirates AbuDhabi Asia £3
96 QatarQatar Doha Asia £3
97 ColombiaColombia Medellin South America £3
98 ColombiaColombia Bogota South America £3
98 ColombiaColombia Cali South America £3
100 CzechiaCzechia Prague Europe £4
101 TaiwanTaiwan Taipei Asia £4
101 TaiwanTaiwan Taichung Asia £4
101 TaiwanTaiwan Kaohsiung Asia £4
104 JapanJapan Naha Asia £4
105 GreeceGreece Athens Europe £4
106 JapanJapan Fukuoka Asia £4
107 TurkeyTurkey Istanbul Europe £5
107 TurkeyTurkey Ankara Europe £5
107 TurkeyTurkey Izmir Europe £5
107 TurkeyTurkey Antalya Europe £5
111 JapanJapan Sendai Asia £5
112 CubaCuba Havana North America £5
113 JapanJapan Hiroshima Asia £5
114 JapanJapan Kobe Asia £5
115 JapanJapan Kyoto Asia £5
116 JapanJapan Nagoya Asia £5
117 JapanJapan Sapporo Asia £5
118 PhilippinesPhilippines Davao Asia £5
119 JapanJapan Osaka Asia £5
120 JapanJapan Tokyo Asia £5
121 PolandPoland Warsaw Europe £5
121 PolandPoland Wroclaw Europe £5
123 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Philadelphia North America £5
123 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Atlanta North America £5
123 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Houston North America £5
123 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Dallas North America £5
123 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Austin North America £5
128 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Seoul Asia £6
128 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Busan Asia £6
128 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Incheon Asia £6
128 SouthKoreaSouthKorea Daegu Asia £6
132 HungaryHungary Budapest Europe £6
133 PhilippinesPhilippines Manila Asia £7
134 PortugalPortugal Lisbon Europe £8
134 PortugalPortugal Porto Europe £8
136 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Detroit North America £8
137 CanadaCanada Edmonton North America £8
138 ThailandThailand Bangkok Asia £8
138 ThailandThailand ChiangMai Asia £8
138 ThailandThailand Phuket Asia £8
141 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Minneapolis North America £8
142 ItalyItaly Turin Europe £8
143 CanadaCanada Calgary North America £8
144 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Anchorage North America £8
145 ItalyItaly Naples Europe £8
146 UnitedStatesUnitedStates LasVegas North America £9
147 NorwayNorway Oslo Europe £9
148 CanadaCanada Toronto North America £9
148 CanadaCanada Ottawa North America £9
150 SingaporeSingapore Singapore Asia £9
151 ItalyItaly Rome Europe £9
151 ItalyItaly Venice Europe £9
151 ItalyItaly Milan Europe £9
154 SpainSpain Valencia Europe £9
154 SpainSpain Madrid Europe £9
156 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Miami North America £9
156 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Orlando North America £9
158 CanadaCanada Vancouver North America £9
159 IsraelIsrael TelAviv Asia £9
159 IsraelIsrael Jerusalem Asia £9
161 FinlandFinland Helsinki Europe £9
162 SpainSpain Barcelona Europe £9
163 NewZealandNewZealand Auckland Australia Pacific £10
163 NewZealandNewZealand Wellington Australia Pacific £10
165 FranceFrance Paris Europe £10
165 FranceFrance Lyon Europe £10
165 FranceFrance Marseille Europe £10
165 FranceFrance Toulouse Europe £10
165 FranceFrance Nice Europe £10
165 FranceFrance Bordeaux Europe £10
171 AustriaAustria Vienna Europe £10
172 MexicoMexico Monterrey North America £10
172 MexicoMexico MexicoCity North America £10
174 GermanyGermany Berlin Europe £11
174 GermanyGermany Munich Europe £11
174 GermanyGermany Frankfurt Europe £11
174 GermanyGermany Hamburg Europe £11
174 GermanyGermany Cologne Europe £11
174 GermanyGermany Stuttgart Europe £11
174 GermanyGermany Leipzig Europe £11
181 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Chicago North America £11
182 SwedenSweden Stockholm Europe £11
183 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Portland North America £11
184 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Phoenix North America £11
185 SwedenSweden Gothenburg Europe £11
186 NetherlandsNetherlands Rotterdam Europe £11
187 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Boston North America £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom London Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Manchester Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Birmingham Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Edinburgh Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Glasgow Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Leeds Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Liverpool Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Bristol Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Cambridge Europe £11
188 UnitedKingdomUnitedKingdom Oxford Europe £11
198 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam Europe £12
199 BelgiumBelgium Brussels Europe £12
200 AustraliaAustralia Sydney Australia Pacific £12
200 AustraliaAustralia Melbourne Australia Pacific £12
200 AustraliaAustralia Brisbane Australia Pacific £12
200 AustraliaAustralia Perth Australia Pacific £12
200 AustraliaAustralia Adelaide Australia Pacific £12
200 AustraliaAustralia Canberra Australia Pacific £12
206 NetherlandsNetherlands TheHague Europe £12
207 IrelandIreland Dublin Europe £12
208 UnitedStatesUnitedStates LosAngeles North America £13
209 UnitedStatesUnitedStates SanDiego North America £13
210 MexicoMexico Guadalajara North America £13
210 MexicoMexico Tijuana North America £13
212 UnitedStatesUnitedStates WashingtonDc North America £13
213 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Honolulu North America £14
214 UnitedStatesUnitedStates SanFrancisco North America £14
215 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Denver North America £14
216 UnitedStatesUnitedStates Seattle North America £14
217 DenmarkDenmark Copenhagen Europe £15
218 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bern Europe £21
219 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva Europe £22
220 ArgentinaArgentina BuenosAires South America £75
221 ArgentinaArgentina Mendoza South America £124
222 KuwaitKuwait KuwaitCity Asia £182
Source: Original research by AI 2026
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