{"uid":"cap_TdfpKqVVaKVztQnQywjPx","slug":"euroref-wage-check-european-minimum-wage-reference-6bd1ab47","name":"euroref Wage Check – European Minimum Wage Reference","description":"Authoritative European government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Germany (de), France (fr). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.","url":"https://euroref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check","method":"GET","headers":{},"bodySchema":{"type":"object","properties":{"properties":{"type":"string"}}},"responseSchema":{"type":"json","example":{"unit":"percent","notes":"STRUCTURAL NOTE: Germany has NO national policy rate. The Deutsche Bundesbank has had no independent monetary-policy competence since 1 January 1999; monetary policy for the euro area is set by the ECB Governing Council under Art. 127-133 TFEU and the ESCB/ECB Statute. The value served is the euro-area-wide ECB deposit facility rate (DFR), which applies identically in all 20 euro-area members, not a German-specific rate. On 11 June 2026 the Governing Council raised all three key rates by 25 basis points with effect from 17 June 2026: deposit facility 2.25%, main refinancing operations (MRO) 2.40%, marginal lending facility 2.65%. This was the first ECB increase since September 2023, reversing part of the eight cuts delivered between June 2024 and June 2025; the ECB cited energy-driven inflation pressure from the Middle East conflict. The DFR is served here because since the 18 March 2024 framework change the ECB steers short-term money-market rates through the DFR and narrowed the MRO-DFR spread to 15bp; the MRO rate (2.40%) remains the headline 'refinancing' rate cited by some sources. No Governing Council monetary-policy meeting fell between 17 June 2026 and the last_confirmed date, so 2.25% is still in force. Note separately that the German statutory Basiszinssatz under Section 247 BGB, published semi-annually by the Bundesbank and used for default interest, is a distinct national figure and is NOT a monetary policy rate. Access: ecb.europa.eu serves the full key-rates table as static HTML and loaded cleanly.","stale":false,"value":2.25,"series":"policy-rate","source":{"url":"https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.mp260611~4d41bd5e83.en.html","name":"European Central Bank, Monetary policy decisions of the Governing Council, 11 June 2026 (press release ecb.mp260611); Key ECB interest rates statistical table"},"country":"DE","disclaimer":"Independent service, not affiliated with any government. 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I need the official figure with its source citation and effective date.","exampleUseCases":[{"title":"Payroll compliance check for German hires","prompt":"We're onboarding contractors in Germany and need to confirm the current legal minimum wage with its official source so our payroll team can verify we're compliant."},{"title":"France versus Germany wage comparison","prompt":"Can you pull the current statutory minimum wage for both France and Germany, including the official citation and when each figure was last confirmed, so I can compare them?"},{"title":"Alert when minimum wage goes stale","prompt":"I want to know if the minimum wage data for Germany is flagged as stale — has it been officially confirmed recently, or should we check the government gazette for an update?"}],"resultDescription":"A JSON object containing the minimum wage value and currency unit, the country code, the effective date, the last-confirmed date, a boolean staleness flag, a series identifier (e.g. 'min-wage'), and a source object with the official URL and name of the government or statutory publication that confirmed the figure, plus any relevant structural notes or disclaimers.","failureModes":["Unsupported country code returns an error or empty result (only 'de' and 'fr' are supported)","Stale flag set to true if the authoritative source has not been re-confirmed recently, signalling the agent should treat the value with caution","Payment required (HTTP 402) if the x402 micropayment header is missing or invalid","Truncated response if the notes field is very long — agents should handle partial text gracefully"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need a machine-readable, cited, authoritative minimum wage figure for Germany or France — particularly when compliance, auditing, or downstream validation requires a traceable primary-source URL and an explicit staleness signal. Prefer it over scraped or uncited sources when your workflow depends on knowing exactly when the value was last confirmed.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-14T06:35:17.132Z","isFirstParty":false}