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Minimum Wage Increase, 1st January 2018

Minimum Wage Increase, 1st January 2018

December 20th, 2017

New Minimum Wage

With effect from 1st January 2018, the new national minimum wage rates will apply:

  • An experienced adult worker: €9.55 per hour*
  • Over 19 and less than 2 years since their first job: €8.60 per hour
  • Over 18 and less than 1 year since they began their first job: €7.64 per hour
  • Aged under 18: €6.69 per hour

*For the purposes on the National Minimum Wage Act an experienced adult worker is an employee who is not:

  • under the age of 18 years, or
  • in the first two years after the date of first employment over age 18, or
  • a trainee undergoing a course that satisfies specific conditions.
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