Bulgaria minimum wage
The nationwide statutory gross monthly minimum wage, set annually by decree (постановление) of the Министерски съвет (Council of Ministers) under чл. 244 от Кодекса на труда and taking effect on 1 January.
| Current value | 620.2 EUR/month |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Постановление № 243 на Министерския съвет от 13 ноември 2025 г. за определяне размера на минималната работна заплата за страната, обнародвано в Държавен вестник, бр. 98 от 18 ноември 2025 г., в сила от 1 януари 2026 г. - 'минимална месечна работна заплата ... 1213 лв. (620,20 евро)' и 'минимална часова работна заплата ... 7,31 лв. (3,74 евро)' |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
CURRENCY IS EUR, AND THE DECREE ITSELF IS DUAL-DENOMINATED. ПМС 243 was issued on 13 November 2025, i.e. before euro entry, so it states each amount in lev with the euro amount in brackets: EUR 620.20 (BGN 1,213) per month and EUR 3.74 (BGN 7.31) per hour, at a normal 8-hour day and 5-day week. Because the euro became the sole legal tender on 1 February 2026 (dual circulation ran 1-31 January 2026), the EUR figure is the operative one and is what is served here; the lev figure is the historical anchor. The conversion is exact at the irrevocable rate of 1.95583 BGN/EUR: 1213 / 1.95583 = 620.196..., rounded to 620.20 per the euro-changeover rounding rules. The increase is +12.6% on the BGN 1,077 (EUR 550.66) that applied in 2025. MECHANISM: since a 2023 amendment to чл. 244 от Кодекса на труда, in force from 2024, the minimum wage is NOT a free political choice - it is fixed at 50% of the average gross monthly wage for a reference period covering the last two quarters of the preceding year and the first two quarters of the current year, as computed and published by the Национален статистически институт (НСИ), and must be determined by 1 September of the current year for the following year. The Council of Ministers then promulgates the resulting amount by постановление. This formula was adopted to implement Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages. FLAG - DO NOT SERVE AS FACT: trade-union material indicates that the transitional provisions of the 2026 state budget bill contained a proposal to amend or suspend the чл. 244 mechanism; whether that was enacted was not verified here, so the 2027 figure should not be assumed to follow the 50% formula. Bulgaria has a single national minimum wage with NO regional or sectoral variation, but higher minimum insurable income thresholds (минимални осигурителни доходи) exist per economic activity and occupation for social-security purposes and are a different instrument. ACCESS: dv.parliament.bg served the full decree text cleanly. The MLSP PDF at mlsp.government.bg is an image-only/CCITT-fax scan and is NOT machine-readable; postedworkers.gli.government.bg presents a certificate whose altnames do not include that hostname and fails TLS verification.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-01 | 550.66 | Постановление на Министерския съвет за определяне размера на |
Get it programmatically
curl https://euroref.dev/v1/bg/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
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