Germany Minimum Wage & Minijob Hours Calculator

About the Germany Minimum Wage & Minijob Hours Calculator

Germany's statutory minimum wage (Mindestlohn) is €13,90 an hour, gross, for almost every employee (Minimum Wage Act, MiLoV5). A Minijob (geringfügig entlohnte Beschäftigung) may pay €603 a month on average, €7.236 a year: the limit is ten hours a week at the minimum wage (§ 8(1a) SGB IV), so at the minimum wage a Minijob allows 43,38 hours a month. The Fifth Minimum Wage Adjustment Regulation has already set the next step, €14,60 an hour with a Minijob limit of €633: choose the year in the calculator.

Enter the hourly wage the job pays to see the most hours a month, a week and a year that stay inside the Minijob limit, the Midijob range above it and, under Check a pay, whether a monthly pay for the hours worked reaches the minimum wage. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

Without a pass, the free preview shows the most hours a month in a Minijob in full, with the minimum wage, the Minijob limit and the first rows of each table; a Pro pass unlocks every figure: the hours a week and a year, the unforeseen months and the Midijob range at your wage, the whole pay check with what is missing a month, and the summary to copy.

The rules

• Minimum wage: every employee is entitled to at least the minimum wage for each hour worked (§ 1 MiLoG); the amount is set by regulation on the proposal of the Minimum Wage Commission (BMAS).
• Minijob limit: the minimum wage × 130 ÷ 3, rounded up to full euros (§ 8(1a) SGB IV); the German Pension Insurance publishes it. It is an average: one month can be higher if another is lower, as long as the year stays within twelve times the limit; extreme swings, such as two months of full-time work, do not count as a Minijob (Minijob-Zentrale).
• Unforeseen months: in up to two calendar months within twelve months the pay may exceed the limit unexpectedly, by up to the limit again, without ending the Minijob (§ 8(1b) SGB IV).
• Midijob: pay regularly above the Minijob limit and up to €2.000 a month is in the transition range (§ 20(2) SGB IV): full social insurance, with reduced employee contributions (Minijob-Zentrale).
• Short-term jobs: limited by time instead, at most three months or 70 working days in a calendar year, 15 weeks or 90 working days on a farm (§ 8(1) No. 2 SGB IV).

Who the minimum wage does not cover

The Minimum Wage Act does not apply to people under 18 without a completed vocational training, to apprentices and volunteers, to some internships (compulsory ones, and orientation or study-related ones of up to three months), and for the first six months to people who were long-term unemployed right before the job (§ 22 MiLoG). Sector minimum wages can be higher than the statutory one.

Limitations

• Hours are rounded down to the hundredth so they never overstate what the limit allows. The limit is about pay: one-off payments such as a Christmas bonus or holiday pay count towards it, tax-free Sunday, holiday and night supplements do not (Minijob-Zentrale).
• The pay check compares a gross monthly pay with the minimum wage for the hours worked; it does not check sector minimum wages, working-time accounts or what counts as pay in a particular case.
• Under the Minimum Wage Act and SGB IV. A guide, not legal advice: for a dispute about pay, ask the minimum wage hotline of the BMAS, a union or a lawyer.

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