The government meets the three union groups days after a national strike and before Friday's budget. Two of them signed January's multi-year deal and now want it reopened.
The average payment has risen to about 700 euros, but wages have outrun the caps, a Bank of Portugal study finds. Six in ten claimants are back at work within a month of leaving the benefit, though four in ten earn less in real terms.
Korn Ferry and Marsh Portugal arrive at almost the same 2027 number from different samples, and the median does not clear 3 percent. Last year's growth was the minimum wage doing the work: operational roles up 6.5 percent, everyone else up 1.3.
The CGTP National Council met on Friday and set the number, alongside a general pay rise of at least 15 percent and a national demonstration in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra on Saturday 17 October. The mainland minimum wage today is 920 euros.
The June 2026 Boletim Económico from the Banco de Portugal flags that the national minimum wage now sits at 91% of the median wage, the highest in the modern series, after a 2023-2025 nominal pay-growth cooling from 6.4% to 5.6%.
Two prints from the same statistical office, one day apart, frame an awkward question for the Banco de Portugal. On Thursday 14 May the Q1 2026 Quarterly Labour Force Survey recorded 38,700 net job losses in three months and pushed unemployment to...
INE's Q1 2026 earnings destaque puts gross monthly average at €1,611, a 5.0% nominal lift and a 2.7% real-terms gain after the CPI deflator. Agriculture leads the sector table at 10.0%, high-tech manufacturing at 7.2%, and firms with 10–19 employees post the steepest 6.0%.
