Will the earnings limit for mini-jobbers be raised soon?

What has to be considered when paying so far

Created: 01/27/2022, 14:53

By: Anne Hund

The statutory minimum wage in Germany is to rise to twelve euros on October 1st.

© Daniel Karmann/dpa

A higher statutory minimum wage has been in force since January 1st – also for mini-jobbers.

However, earnings in a mini-job may not exceed 450 euros per month.

A higher statutory minimum wage has been in effect since January 1, 2022.

And that also applies to mini-jobbers* - regardless of whether they are employed in the

or in the

, as the consumer center of North Rhine-Westphalia informed on its website.

The statutory minimum wage rose from 9.60 euros to 9.82 euros per hour on January 1st.

On July 1, 2022, it is to be increased again by a further 63 cents to EUR 10.45 per hour.

Mini-jobs: Adjusting the number of hours as a result of higher minimum wages

In case of doubt, the

-job must be reduced, according to the consumer advice center.

After all, marginal employment is still only allowed to earn a

.

"If the employment is to continue as a 450-euro mini-job, the working hours must therefore be recalculated from the turn of the year in order to remain under the earnings cap.

Otherwise, the employment relationship will be subject to social security contributions,” said their contribution from November with a view to the year 2022.

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?

The new minimum wage law by Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD) does not contain

, reports the FAZ (

, as of January 25) on the draft law.

The coalition agreement between the SPD, Greens and FDP actually also provides for the earnings limit for mini-jobs to be linked to the minimum wage in the future, i.e. to raise it at the same time, as the report goes on to say.

However, there is nothing about the project, which was agreed upon at the insistence of the FDP, in the Labor Minister's draft law.

Dealers, innkeepers and cleaning companies would now react particularly irritated - i.e. those sectors in which 

-jobs played a major role.

At the request of the FAZ, the labor market policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Pascal Kober, made it clear: "We expect that the Minister of Labor will soon also present a draft law on mini-job earnings limits." The FDP will ensure that the higher minimum wage arrives at mini-jobbers.

It is "urgently necessary" to raise the limit to 520 euros and make it dynamic, as "actually agreed in the coalition agreement," warns Stefan Genth, General Manager of the German Retail Association (HDE), according to the report.

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Registration at the Minijob-Zentrale

Employers now have to consider an innovation: since this year, the

has had to be reported, as the mini-job center informed.

Read here what that means in concrete terms.

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For example , in order not to employ

help on the black market, they must be registered with the

, as the German pension insurance also explains in principle, according to the German Press Agency (dpa).

The

quickest way to

The mini-job center then takes on most of the employer's obligations, reports dpa on the subject, "for example, calculating and collecting taxes and reporting on accident insurance".

Tax: Employers can deduct part of the expenses

In addition, mini-jobbers thus acquire

.

In return, according to dpa,

can deduct 20 percent of the total expenditure, up to a maximum of 510 euros per year, from their

.