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add columns to the table to respresent mimimum wages in preceding years converted to euro's or dollars. (and possibly compraed to GDP) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.87.123.162 (talk)

Uruguay, 2018

On January 1st, 2018, Uruguay's minimum wage was decided to be UYU 13,430 per month, which equals USD 473,54. Reference: http://www.subrayado.com.uy/noticias/74155/salario-minimo-aumento-95-y-paso-a-ser-de-13430-pesos-desde-enero

Map by % per capita GDP

Can we get a map going by % per capita GDP?

Canada

Could someone please adjust the numbers for Canada? I updated the new numbers for the lowest and highest minimum wages, and the equivalent US amounts, but then realised the tables would all have to be adjusted as well, and I don't know how to do that ("nominal", "PPP", "GDP", etc), so I didn't publish the changes. I left it as is. The sentence to be changed reads: "The minimum wage in Canada is set federally and by each province and territory; ranges from CA$13 to CA$16 (US$9.69 to US$11.93) per hour." The sentence can be changed to read, " ... ranges from CAD$14 to CAD$19 (USD$10.33 to USD$14.01) per hour." and then the corresponding tables will have to be changed as well (and if anyone knows how to do it and can tell me, I can do it myself. Still learning). And FYI, the currency abbreviations/acronyms for Canadian and US currencies are "CAD" and "USD", not "CA" and "US".

On a related note, some of these figures will change later in 2024 (i.e. Ontario's minimum wage of $16.55 will rise to $17.20 on October 1, 2024), but that can dealt with later. Kubrickrules (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 14:42, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Income Tax Rate

Currently misses the Personal Income Tax Rate in percent for each country which means the minimum wage can appear alot higher than the actual take-home value earnt after tax. Requires a decent free source thats updated regularly to add to it via another column. Stryderunknown (talk) 00:13, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

completely unrealistic. Just about every country on the planet uses a progressive personal income tax system with so many complex caveats that

you cant even map an income to a tax rate or reverse. What would actually be in the column? some more of that reference 10 spam to nothing? Krogott (talk) 17:12, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Israel

On October 18, somebody updated Israel's row in this table with new numbers in this edit, but their action had the undesirable side effect of breaking the row entirely, so that every column displayed a blaring red "Error in Template:Nts: Fractions are not supported" error message instead of a number. However, they just changed numbers — even the working version of the table contained "fractions", and the editor didn't introduce any new "fractions" that weren't already there, so it isn't obvious to me how their edit caused the problem.

For the moment I've reverted their edit, since we obviously can't leave the table in a broken state (also, it was transcluding a redlinked error-maintenance category that I couldn't leave on the page). If their edit was fundamentally valid, however, then could somebody update Israel's row with the new numbers in a way that doesn't break it? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 16:03, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Argentina

Could anyone try to fix the issue that is causing Argentina to have a minimum wage of 14.89 USD per hour? Values appear to be correct but something in the calculation is broken. From the sources, the value should be around ten times lower. Angryvendingmachine (talk) 21:25, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cuba

In the entry for Cuba in the minimum wage table, the following text is given: Each citizen is however also given free food to supplement the salary. As far as I know, the statement is false. If somebody can provide details (references, name of the program, etc.), that would be helpful. Otherwise, the text should be removed. 2600:6C54:7CF0:90A0:D840:614C:E865:EFC1 (talk) 02:28, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]