Czechia's salary woes: Can the country close its minimum wage gap?

The OECD says that the nation has one of the world's worst ratios of minimum wage to median salaries: changing this isn't easy.

Thomas Smith

Written by Thomas Smith Published on 12.11.2025 16:36:00 (updated on 13.11.2025) Reading time: 2 minutes

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Czechia has one of the lowest minimum wages in the developed world when compared with typical earnings, according to new findings from the OECD.

Workers earning the legal minimum make just 45 percent of the median national wage; far below the EU’s recommended 60 percent. Though there has been some progress—in 2015, the minimum wage was just 39 percent of the median—the gap still remains wide. 

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With an estimated 118,000 people earning the minimum wage across the country, and many more relying on undeclared income in the gray economy, the issue has become so pressing that parties across the political spectrum have vowed to close the gap. But can they?

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