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  "study": {
    "slug": "minimum-wages-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Germany's Legal Minimum Wage Buys More Than Any Other in the EU",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/minimum-wages-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Monthly minimum wage in euros, second half of 2026",
  "valueHeading": "EUR per month",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 22 EU Member States with a statutory minimum wage.",
  "decimals": 0,
  "referenceLabel": null,
  "note": "Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden set no statutory minimum wage and are absent from this ranking rather than shown at zero.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Monthly minimum wages — bi-annual data",
    "code": "earn_mw_cur",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "S",
      "currency": "EUR, PPS",
      "time": "2026-S2"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-08-11",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-07-31",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/earn_mw_cur",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/earn_mw_cur/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
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      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Luxembourg",
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    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Ireland",
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      "gap_to_reference": null,
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    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Germany",
      "value": 2343,
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    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Romania",
      "value": 825,
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      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Latvia",
      "value": 780,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
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      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Bulgaria",
      "value": 620,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
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      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}