This white paper covers a variety of minimum wage increases from the first half of 2025 in the United States, Canada, and other countries that are included in ERI SalaryExpert’s Global Salary Calculator (GSC), a valuable resource for global compensation planning.
A required minimum wage is a legal way that governments can ensure that workers are not paid below a designated level to help guarantee a certain minimum standard of living. Different locales can have varying
philosophies regarding how to set these minimums in terms of relative level and frequency of updates.
Minimum wages worldwide are increasing in 2025 in the wake of record inflation rates, with some countries updating their minimum wage multiple times per year to maintain its efficacy. Keeping up with these updates and changes to minimum wage laws worldwide is a challenging yet crucial aspect of compensation planning.
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Data are gathered from 3 sources: surveys we conduct, surveys purchased from other organizations, and reports from publicly traded organizations.
After compiling the data, we conduct QA to ensure data is vetted, verefied, and of the highest quality.
SalaryExpert conducts advanced analytics to accurately capture the full scope of each occupation in our salary survey database.
SalaryExpert analysts double-check the results for each job every quarter. Our verified salary survey information helps set the benchmark pay.
Explore SalaryExpert’s wage, salary, and compensation databases of over 11,000 job titles, 1,100 industries, and 8,500 locations.