National minimum wage
The national minimum wage is set as an hourly rate by statutory instrument. This page turns that rate into weekly, monthly and annual figures for the hours you choose, shows the sub-minimum rates as the percentages the Act actually legislates, and covers the board and lodging offsets.
An hourly rate, set by statutory instrument
The national minimum wage is a gross hourly rate — currently €14.15 an hour, in force from 1 January 2026. It is declared by a statutory instrument made under the National Minimum Wage Acts, which says simply that the national minimum hourly rate of pay shall be that amount. That is the whole of the legal statement: one rate, one hour.
Everything else you will see quoted — a weekly wage, a monthly wage, an annual salary — is a conversion somebody has made using an assumption about hours. There is no statutory working week in Ireland, so no weekly or annual minimum exists in law. The converter below therefore asks you for the hours rather than pretending to know them.
Instrument of record: S.I. No. 472/2025 — National Minimum Wage Order 2025, made under s.10D of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000.
Convert the hourly rate
An assumption you can change — the Act sets an hourly rate, not a working week.
Statutory hourly rate
€14.15
- Per week
- €551.85
- Per month
- €2,391.35
- Per year
- €28,696.20
The weekly, monthly and annual figures are conversions of the statutory hourly rate at the hours you entered — they are not themselves statutory amounts.
What it comes to after the charges
The gross rate is only half the question. Below, a single employee working 39 hours a week at the statutory rate, run through this site’s engine for a full contribution year: income tax after credits, USC and PRSI, and the take-home that is left. The hours are an assumption you can change above; every other figure is computed.
| What is being paid | Per year | Per week |
|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | €28,696.20 | €551.85 |
| Income tax after credits | −€1,739.24 | −€33.45 |
| USC | −€393.74 | −€7.57 |
| PRSI (employee) | −€1,216.15 | −€23.39 |
| Take-home pay | €25,347.07 | €487.44 |
The effective rate on that gross is 11.67% — a useful reminder that at the bottom of the scale the tax credits do most of the work, and the charge that bites hardest is often not income tax at all. Your employer also pays €2,593.50 of employer PRSI on top of the wage, which is a cost of the job rather than a deduction from it.
Sub-minimum rates: percentages in law, euro figures in the wild
Younger and newly-employed workers can lawfully be paid less than the full rate — but the Act does not set a euro figure for them. It sets percentages of the national minimum hourly rate. Every sub-minimum euro amount you see quoted anywhere, including on official plain-English pages, is somebody multiplying the statutory percentage by the statutory rate. That makes those figures derived, and this site does not publish derived amounts as if they were legislated ones, so you will not find them in a table here.
The second thing that is routinely got wrong is the trigger, and it is worth being precise because the wrong answer is still widely repeated. Today the reduced rates key off calendar age: under 18, then exactly 18, then exactly 19, and the full rate from 20. Someone who starts their first job at 25 is on the full rate from their first hour — because of their age, not because a clock never started.
The confusion has a specific source. The original text of the Act did run on time in employment after turning 18 — a first year, then a second — and that wording is still what you get if you read the Act as originally enacted. It was substituted with effect from March 2019, so the tenure test is no longer law. If a page quotes the tenure version, it is quoting a repealed provision.
Board and lodging are handled by the same instrument that sets the rate. Where an employer provides them, fixed offsets — an hourly amount for board, weekly and daily amounts for lodgings — count towards the minimum wage. Those offsets are not carried in this site’s rate payload yet, so they are described here rather than quoted.
Scope and limits
The figures on this page follow the Workplace Relations Commission and the Irish Statute Book, cited where they are used. If a rate changed recently it may not be reflected here yet — for an official amount, check the cited source or ask Revenue.