{"id":632811,"date":"2026-09-22T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:06:13","slug":"do-you-think-the-minimum-wage-should-be-increased-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632811\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think the minimum wage should be increased? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A NEW REPORT from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found most of the recent increases to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/minimum-wage-inflation-ireland-7169022-Sep2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ireland\u2019s minimum wage have had no impact on inflation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ESRI report found no significant increases in prices following seven out of eight minimum wage increases since 2016. It states that minimum wage employees account for 2.7% of Ireland\u2019s total wage bill.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the minimum wage for adults aged 20 and over in Ireland is \u20ac14.15 per hour. Younger workers earn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/minimum-wage-young-people-7148551-Sep2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an age-based wage<\/a>, with 18-year-olds earning 80% and 19-year-olds earning 90% of the full adult minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>In the last decade, there were increases to the minimum wage in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>So, today we\u2019re asking: Do you think the minimum wage should be increased?<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>Not sure\/No opinion (376)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NEW REPORT from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found most of the recent increases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,113,1392,25744,61,1095,60,18815,3865,3866,3867],"class_list":["post-632811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-esri","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-minimum-wage","tag-poll","tag-the-daily-poll","tag-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}