Gross pay at the National Minimum Wage for any weekly hours.
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What the floor pays across a full week
The National Minimum Wage sets the lowest legal hourly rate an adult worker can be paid, and it is currently €13.50 an hour for workers aged 20 and over. This tool takes that rate, multiplies it by the hours you work each week and the weeks you work each year, and shows the result as hourly, weekly, monthly and annual gross pay. It is deliberately a gross figure. The minimum wage is defined before any deductions, so what you see here is the headline earning, not the amount that lands in a bank account. That distinction trips people up constantly, and we come back to it below.
A 39-hour week at the full rate, costed out
A full-time week in Ireland is commonly 39 hours. At the adult rate of €13.50, worked across all 52 weeks of the year, the numbers stack up like this.
The bars below show how those same hours pay out at the four age rates the law allows.
Younger workers and the sub-minimum rates
The law permits reduced rates for younger workers, set as a fraction of the full adult rate. A 19 year old can be paid 90 percent, an 18 year old 80 percent, and anyone under 18 just 70 percent. So an 18 year old on a 39-hour week earns €10.80 an hour, which works out at about €21,902 a year before deductions. These are maximum reductions, not requirements, and many employers pay the full rate regardless of age to keep things simple and fair. Once a worker turns 20 the full adult rate applies automatically. Apprentices fall under separate statutory pay scales and are not covered by these age bands.
Gross is not what lands in the account
Here is the practical bit. A full-time minimum wage salary of about €27,378 sits above the USC exemption threshold of €13,000 and above the PRSI weekly threshold, so some USC and PRSI do apply, though income tax is largely wiped out by the personal and PAYE tax credits worth €2,000 each. The result is that take-home pay is close to, but not the same as, the gross figure shown here. To see the net number, run the annual total through a take-home pay calculator. A common mistake is budgeting off the gross annual figure and then being short each month once USC and PRSI come out. Treat this tool as the starting point for that conversation, not the final word on net income.
This calculator is most useful for a few groups: workers checking that an employer is paying at least the legal floor, students and younger employees confirming which age rate applies to them, and anyone planning a budget around part-time hours. If your payslip shows an hourly rate below the figure this tool produces for your age, that is a flag worth raising, because paying under the National Minimum Wage is a breach of employment law that the Workplace Relations Commission can pursue on your behalf.
Does the minimum wage apply to part-time and casual workers?
Yes. The hourly rate is the same regardless of how many hours you work or whether the job is permanent, part time or casual. Set your actual weekly hours in the tool and the weekly, monthly and annual totals scale accordingly. Tips and gratuities cannot be used to make up the minimum wage; they sit on top of it.
How often does the minimum wage change?
It is reviewed every year, with the Low Pay Commission recommending a rate to government and any increase usually taking effect on 1 January. Ireland is also moving towards a living wage set at 60 percent of median earnings over the coming years, which will push the floor higher than the current €13.50.