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Portugal

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Explore how minimum wage compares to Big Mac prices in Portugal, and how many burgers you can earn with 1 hour of work.

Minimum wage (gross)
€5.31
/ hour
Big Mac price
€6.08
Burgers per hour
0.87
You can buy about 0 burgers in 1 hour
Work time for 1 Big Mac
1h 8m

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How we calculate burgers per hour

Minimum wage / hour
€5.31
÷
Big Mac price
€6.08
=
Burgers per hour
0.87

Converted from €920 / month at 40 h/week

Neighbouring ranks

  1. 35Estonia0.93
  2. 36Greece0.87
  3. 37Portugal0.87
  4. 38Slovakia0.87
  5. 39Indonesia0.78

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Minimum wage (gross)

Source: Decreto-Lei n.º 139/2025, de 29 de dezembro (Diário da República) · effective Jan 1, 2026

Decreto-Lei n.º 139/2025, de 29 de dezembro (Diário da República)

Portugal sets a Guaranteed Minimum Monthly Wage (Retribuição Mínima Mensal Garantida, RMMG), not a native hourly rate. RMMG = EUR 920.00 gross/month for mainland (Continente), effective 1 Jan 2026, up EUR 50 from EUR 870 (2025), set by Decreto-Lei n.º 139/2025 (revokes DL 112/2024). Paid in 14 instalments (12 months + holiday and Christmas subsidies). Statutory full-time week is 40 hours; an implied hourly rate is approx EUR 6.19 (920*14/52/40) but is NOT officially published. Autonomous regions have higher regional minimums: Azores EUR 966, Madeira EUR 968. Part-time pay is prorated. No general statutory youth/apprentice sub-minimum below the RMMG. Eurostat publishes ~EUR 1,073 (annualised/12) for cross-EU comparison; the contractual monthly figure is EUR 920. Roadmap (2025-2028 tripartite accord): EUR 970 in 2027, EUR 1,020 in 2028.

Big Mac price: Economist (Euro area avg) · Jan 1, 2026

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