Payment in Greece

Greece sets a statutory minimum wagewhich is reviewed annually. From 1 April 2026, the minimum is €920 gross per month for salaried employees and €41.09 gross per day for waged workers under Joint Ministerial Decision 8934/2026, up from €880 and €39.30. No individual or collective agreement may set pay below the statutory minimum.

Because Greek private-sector pay is structured around 14 payments a year, a minimum-wage employee’s annual pay is 14 × €920, equivalent to about €1,073 per month on a 12-payment basis.

Each bonus is reduced proportionally for employees who worked only part of the reference period, and all three payments are subject to social insurance contributions and income tax in the normal way. Together they produce the “14 salaries” employers must budget for.

Beyond twelve monthly salaries, Greek law requires three additional payments every year:

Salary is payable at the agreed intervals, monthly for salaried staff, in universal practice, and becomes due once the work has been performed; on termination, all wages up to the last day fall due immediately.

Greek law sets no fixed calendar payday: within the monthly cycle the date is a matter of contract or company practice, and salaried employees are typically paid at month-end.

What the law does fix is the channel: wages and severance must be paid into the employee’s bank account, not in cash; the transfer should identify the purpose and period covered.

Employees receive an itemised pay statement showing gross pay, each statutory deduction (income tax and social insurance) and net pay, in Greek. It may be issued electronically.

Payroll in Greece runs alongside ERGANI II, the Ministry of Labour’s digital labour-information system through which employers file every hiring, schedule, pay-change and termination declaration.: