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The national minimum wage
The monthly figures published by Government decision (Official Gazette), from January 2015 to October 2026.
Gross minimum wage
4,325 lei/month
October 2026
The “Gross minimum wage” series
- Series high
- 4,325 lei/monthOctober 2026
- Series low
- 975 lei/monthJune 2015
- Months published
- 142since January 2015
Trends
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The same amount, in euro
Eurostat republishes the Romanian legal threshold and converts it into euro. The amount in euro changes even when the law does not, because it depends on the exchange rate. It is not a second legal value: the legal value is the one in lei, above.
Romania, in euro
825 EUR/month
October 2026
The source of this comparison: Eurostat, October 2026. See the source.
What it means
The guaranteed national gross minimum basic wage is the floor below which an employer may not pay an employee working normal hours. It is not a statistic: it is neither measured nor estimated, but set by Government decision and published in the Official Gazette. For that reason the source of this page is not the National Institute of Statistics.
The value here is the gross one, as the decision fixes it. The amount that actually reaches the hand is smaller, because the employee's social contributions and the income tax are withheld from the gross, and the net depends on the tax parameters of the moment — which is why it is not set by the decision and is not published here as an official figure.
Every month in the chart and in the table carries the value in force in that month and the act that set it. The threshold changes on dates fixed by the decision, not at the start of a year: in 2023 it changed in January and again in October, and in 2026 on 1 July.
History
| Period | Gross minimum wage |
|---|---|
| October 2026 | 4,325 |
| September 2026 | 4,325 |
| August 2026 | 4,325 |
| July 2026 | 4,325 |
| June 2026 | 4,050 |
| May 2026 | 4,050 |
| April 2026 | 4,050 |
| March 2026 | 4,050 |
| February 2026 | 4,050 |
| January 2026 | 4,050 |
| December 2025 | 4,050 |
| November 2025 | 4,050 |
| October 2025 | 4,050 |
| September 2025 | 4,050 |
| August 2025 | 4,050 |
| July 2025 | 4,050 |
| June 2025 | 4,050 |
| May 2025 | 4,050 |
| April 2025 | 4,050 |
| March 2025 | 4,050 |
| February 2025 | 4,050 |
| January 2025 | 4,050 |
| December 2024 | 3,700 |
| November 2024 | 3,700 |
Year by year
Every year has its own page, with all its periods, the average, the minimum and the maximum.
Source: Government decision (Official Gazette), through HG 1/2017, HG 1017/2015, HG 1071/2021, HG 1091/2014, HG 1447/2022, HG 146/2026, HG 1506/2024, HG 4/2021, HG 598/2024, HG 846/2017, HG 900/2023, HG 935/2019, HG 937/2018. Period covered: January 2015 – October 2026. See the source.
The value in force is set by HG 146/2026 (Official Gazette, Part I, no. 196 of 13 March 2026) and applies from 1 July 2026: 4,325 lei a month for normal working time of 166.667 hours a month on average, that is 25.949 lei an hour. The net amount is not set by the decision — it depends on the contributions and the tax in force — so it is not published here as an official figure. Construction has a distinct sectoral minimum wage of 4,582 lei gross (OUG 156/2024); in agriculture and the food industry the distinct threshold was abolished from 1 July 2026 and the general minimum applies.
Derived figure. The threshold changes on the dates a Government decision sets, not monthly. Every month in the chart and in the table carries the value in force in that month and, in the source column, the act that set it.