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28/09/2026

Greece's €920 minimum wage lifts pay even as growth cools

If your payslip looked a little different from April, you are not imagining it. Greece's minimum wage moved from €880 to €920 on 1 April 2026, a 4.55% bump that lifted the statutory floor by €40 a month. What is less obvious, and more intere...

22/09/2026

6 min

Greece minimum wage 2027: what the €960 floor really costs employers

Greece's minimum wage rises to €960 gross on 1 April 2027, with a government target of €1,000 by January 2028. The headline reads as a win for 576,000 private-sector workers on the floor. For HR leaders running payroll models, workforce plans , ...

22/09/2026

4 min

Greek wages down 22.3% as heating costs surge 60%

Greek workers are the only workforce in the EU whose real wages have gone backwards over the last fifteen years. Eurostat figures put the decline at 22.3% between 2010 and 2025, against an EU-wide median real income rise of 25.4% over the same ...

22/09/2026

6 min

Greece's €1.4bn food and beverage capex wave: 162,000 workers

Greece's food and beverage industrialists are pouring €1.4 billion into new plants, automated lines and export capacity, according to reporting by Efimerida ton Syntakton. The sector already employs more than 162,000 people and accounts for 15% o...

17/09/2026

3 min

Greece Q4 hiring: 28% plan to hire, 16% plan layoffs

Greece's headline hiring number for the last quarter of the year looks reassuring, until you read the second line. 28% of employers plan to hire, 54% will keep headcount flat, and 16% plan layoffs. One in six. That gap between the confident ...

16/09/2026

4 min

Greece's e-EFKA to recalculate 37,000 pensions, avg €3,000 back

Roughly 37,000 Greek pensioners are about to see their monthly payments recalculated, and many will collect retroactive sums that average around €3,000, with some cases crossing €7,000. The e-EFKA is preparing a fresh payment list to clear a back...

16/09/2026

4 min

Greece's summer 2026 hiring: 632k jobs and what ERGANI shows

Greece's summer 2026 hiring numbers look enormous on paper: 632,537 people were hired in June and July. But 642,244 were let go in the same window, according to the ERGANI information system. The net figure is quietly negative, and the group ...

16/09/2026

5 min

DYPA 2026 seasonal allowance: what Greek tourism, construction and arts workers need to know

If you worked a summer season in a hotel, a taverna, on a building site or backstage in a theatre, the winter allowance from DYPA is probably already on your radar. This year the money is the same shape as before, between 719 and 1,438 euros ...

08/09/2026

6 min

Greece's two-speed wages meet the new 5% pay-transparency rule

Greece now runs on two parallel wage economies. On one track, roughly 900,000 full-time private-sector workers in firms with more than 10 employees are paid an average of €1,572.59 a month. On the other, about 250,000 salaried executives, tech sp...

08/09/2026

6 min

Why Greek employers offer meal vouchers instead of a pay rise

Your manager sits you down and says the good news: a €100 raise on your gross salary. You do the mental maths on the way home. New car service, maybe a weekend away. Then payday arrives and the extra is €55.44. The rest went to the state before i...

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