Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – According to a study, the increase in the minimum wage to twelve euros due on October 1 should be reflected on the payslips of a good 1.3 million employees in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to calculations by the Economic and Social Science Institute (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation, which is close to the trade union, this is how many employees currently earn less than twelve euros an hour. This corresponds to 16.8 percent of all employees in NRW who are legally entitled to the minimum wage. Nationwide, the rate is 17.8 percent.
Depending on the municipality, the quotas in NRW vary greatly. The city of Bonn (10.8 percent), the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein (12.9), and the cities of Münster (13.9), Cologne (14.5) and Düsseldorf (15.1) currently have the lowest shares to employees who currently earn less than twelve euros. The city of Mönchengladbach (22.3 percent), the districts of Viersen (21.9) and Kleve (21.5) and the cities of Solingen (21.2) and Hamm (20.6) have the highest.
In a nationwide comparison, the proportion of employees who are entitled to a pay increase as a result of the minimum wage increase is highest in the districts of Sonneberg in Thuringia (44.0 percent) and Teltow-Fläming (Brandenburg; 43.1 percent). Mönchengladbach comes in 95th place. The rate is lowest in Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony; 7.9 percent) and Erlangen (8.1 percent). Bonn comes in seventh place.
