National Minimum Wage from January 2022

The national minimum hourly rate is €10.50 from 1 January 2022.

Category of Employee Hourly Rate:

Aged 20 and over €10.50

Under 18 €7.35

Aged 18 €8.40

Aged 19 €9.45

Since 4 March 2019 trainee rates have been abolished.

For the purposes of the National Minimum Wage your gross wage includes, for example, the basic salary and any shift premium, bonus or service charge.

If you receive board or lodgings, that is food or accommodation from your employer, the maximum amounts that can be included are:

• for board only €0.94 per hour worked

• for accommodation only €24.81 per week or €3.55 per day

From 1 January 2022 the following categories of employees are excluded from the National Minimum Wage:

• employees who are close relatives of the employer, where the employer is a Sole Trader

• a craft apprentice within the meaning of the Industrial Training Act, 1967, or the Labour of Services Act, 1987

Note for Employers:

In order to ensure that the increase in the minimum wage does not result in employers attracting a higher level of PRSI charge solely due to this increase, the employer PRSI threshold will increase from €398 currently to €410 from 1 January 2022.

Office Move

We’re delighted to announce our new location - the SCCUL Enterprise Centre, Ballybane. After starting off in Ballybane 21 years ago, we have now come back - albeit further up the road.

For a great number of years we have been proud to be part of the SCCUL community having collaborated on different projects, participated in events, used the great meeting facilities and quite importantly we have referred many clients undertaking self employment to Bizmentors for invaluable advice and guidance. Not only that but SCCUL have supported us over the years by employing people via EmployAbility, as have some of the companies based in the SCCUL Enterprise Centre. So we are extremely delighted to now be based in the heart of the SCCUL community!

We are in the transition period with the landline still out of action - therefore mobile numbers and email addresses are the best way to make contact. Full services continue.

After eight years in the Galway Technology Centre we were sad to say goodbye, but would like to thank everyone in Galway Technology Centre for the support, friendships and laughter over the years, the employment opportunities, the connections, the collaborations and getting behind our initiatives. We will miss you all, but we are sure our paths will cross again in future.