{"id":2545,"date":"2019-04-13T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/turkey-to-boost-minimum-wage-26-pct\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:46:22","slug":"turkey-to-boost-minimum-wage-26-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/turkey-to-boost-minimum-wage-26-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to boost minimum wage 26 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h2>As of New Year\u2019s Day, Turkey is raising its minimum wage by over 26 percent to 2,020 Turkish liras a month ($381.3).<\/h2>\n<p>The new gross minimum wage, before deductions such as social security premiums and income taxes, is 2,558 liras ($482.9), Zehra Zumrut Selcuk, Turkey\u2019s family, labour and social services minister, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She said the hike set by the minimum wage commission tops the country\u2019s inflation rate.<\/p>\n<p>As of this November, annual inflation was 21.62 percent, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage of 2,020 liras is for single and childless persons, said Selcuk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minimum wage for married people with three children is 2,155 Turkish liras ($406.9),\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>During 2018, the net minimum wage was 1,603 liras ($333.3). This year the average Turkish lira\/U.S. dollar exchange rate was 4.81.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-to-boost-minimum-wage-26-pct\/?utm_source=source&#038;utm_medium=medyaolusum&#038;utm_campaign=english&#038;utm_content=news rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NationalTurk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of New Year\u2019s Day, Turkey is raising its minimum wage by over 26 percent to 2,020 Turkish liras a month ($381.3). The new gross minimum wage, before deductions such as social security premiums and income taxes, is 2,558 liras ($482.9), Zehra Zumrut Selcuk, Turkey\u2019s family, labour and social services minister, said on Tuesday. She &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}