THE MINIMUM wage is being increased to \u20ac887 from \u20ac840 effective from Thursday, the Labour Advisory Committee announced yesterday. Final approval for the 5.6 per cent increase, which will bring the minimum wage to 50 per cent of the average national wage, rests with the Cabinet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, this means that the while the minimum wage will now be \u20ac887, the average is twice that much – \u20ac1774.\u00a0 That’s good to know.\u00a0 Now I have an a better answer for all those people who are asking.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Living and working in Cyprus, I am often asked by people from other countries what are salaries like in Cyprus.\u00a0 I never had a good answer to the question, because the answer depends a lot on the company you’ll be working for and your position.\u00a0 Even the range for the same position across different companies … Continue reading Minimum salary in Cyprus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[1593,166,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-economy","tag-salary","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15434,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/25\/civil-servants-salaries-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":12354,"position":0},"title":"Civil servants salaries in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: Around 65 per cent of civil servants (some 35,000) are paid wages that are substantially higher than the national average. 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