FedEE review of minimum wage rates

In Europe, statutory minimum wage rates range from just 65 euros a month in the Russian Federation to 1,570 euros a month in Luxembourg. In all but a handful of countries, these rates provide a standard of living that is close to (or even below) subsistence levels. Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy and Sweden do not operate statutory minimum rates, but nevertheless have minimum rates set through binding sectoral collective agreements that jointly cover a high proportion of the working population.

Monthly gross statutory minimum wage rates
Full-time adult employees, aged 23+ (*)
Approximate conversions to euros are shown in red
Country local currency euros Date effective
Belgium 1,258.91 01.10.2006
Bulgaria 180 leva 92.30 01.01.2007
Croatia 2080 kunas 282.23 01.01.2005
Cyprus‡ 434 Cyprus pounds 745.62 01.10.2007
Czech Republic 7,955 koruny 284.38 01.07.2006
Estonia 3,600 kroons 230.08 01.01.2007
France 1,280.07†† 01.07.2007
Greece† 625.97 01.09.2006
Hungary 65,500 forints 240.14 01.01.2007
Ireland 1,499.33 01.07.2007
Isle of Man 936 IOM pounds 1,391.91 01.10.2006
Jersey (Channel islands) 936.00 Jersey pounds 1,377.97 01.04.2007
Latvia 120 lats 170.75 01.01.2007
Lithuania 600 litai 173.77 01.07.2006
Luxembourg 1,570.28# 01.01.2007
Malta 258.40 lira 602.95 01.01.2007
Moldova 766.1 lei 46.29 01.01.2007
Netherlands 1,300.80 01.01.2007
Poland 936 zlotys 244.17 01.01.2007
Portugal† 403.00 01.01.2007
Romania## 390.00 new lei 115.06 01.01.2007
Russian Federation 2,300 roubles
(Moscow 5,829) 65.99
(167.28) 01.09.2007
Serbia 8,004 new dinars 96.44 01.05.2006
Slovakia 8,100 koruny 241.20 01.10.2007
Slovenia 538.53 01.08.2007
Spain† 570.00 01.01.2007
Turkey 562.50 new lira 302.61 01.01.2007
Ukraine 460 hryvnias 64.67 01.10.2007
United Kingdom 956.80 pounds sterling 1,381.52 01.10.2007

Oh, poor russians an ukrainians.....

So big countries with every kind of minerals and natural resources and so POOR.
It's unbelievable.

Russians and Ukrainians do not know how to lead their countries to prosperity.

Nigda verij statistika ktora ti ne falsxil seba!

Li Vi napravduo verijut zxe jedin kilogram hleb cenit vo Rusia ili vo Ukraina tri euro?

Sure, Russian wages are very low. But you also should have in mind that the value listed above is MROT (minimal'nyj razmer oplaty truda -- minimum wages value). I doubt very much that Russian laws would allow to pay so little to somebody. MROT is mostly used to express values of administrative penalties, it's kinda a special currency unit -- when it's raised the penalties for violation of road laws etc. are raised proportionally. Such using of MROT is criticized for long time. The current government's policy is gradual raising of MROT value till it will be able to serve its original function, and replacing of penalty values expressed in MROT's with their ruble equivalents.

I saw many russians and ukrainians in some other countries of Europe and they couldn't afford as much as they could ordinary people e.g. from Germany, UK, France, Italy, Sweden, Holland, ...

That is the real "mirror" of what can afford the ordinary people in the west and in the east of Europe.

And I ask all of you ... why do you all live in capitalist countries if you stand for Russia ? Why do you live in Switzerland, Germany, USA etc and don't
live in Russia ? It's hypocracy from your side, don't you think ?
Go to the east and try to live there as majority of common people - then you'll see the real life there.

So let´s find out who is a hypocrite you or we?

Pervju pitanie: In which country are you living and why you do live there?

I am not hypocrat - I live in the east.

But you talk about slavicism and living in the west. Why ?

answer my question! Where are you from?

I never talked about "slavicism"?

But you seam to be an anti-Slavicist living in the East, why?

You seem to be communo-capitalist living in Germany and talking about communism and about the slavs and getting all the enjoyments of capitalism, their way of life and all the advantages against the east.

Try to live in Russia, Poland or Belorusia if you are talking so much about it.

Go to Venezuela, Cuba or North Corea when you like communism and communists and their way of life and do not just talk about it.

I was living four years in Ethiopia. No znajm sxto es bieda! I have relatives in Poland. No znajm ih standard zxiznum. I do not need to go to Cuba or Venezuela, I have relatives in Bolivia. No znajm zxe Bolivia es naibiedaju kraj vo Amerika.

statystyczna długo¶ć życia:

Etiopia: 44 rocx
Polska: 73 rocx
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Bolivia: 62 rocx
Kuba: 76 rocx