Spain’s government has just increased the minimum wage, meaning that foreigners applying for or already on the digital nomad visa will have to show higher monthly earnings.

Spain’s Ministry of Labour on January 29th reached an agreement with the country’s main trade unions to raise the minimum wage (SMI in Spanish) by 4.4 percent in 2025. This increase translates to €50 more per month, taking it up €1,184 per month across 14 payments (€16,576 gross per year).

What this means for digital nomads in Spain is that the financial requirements for the country’s Digital Nomad Visa will also increase in 2025, as these are linked to Spain’s SMI.

The 14 payments make it a little confusing because most times when foreigners see the amount for the minimum wage, they assume it’s across 12 payments, one per month of the year. Therefore, you must first calculate how much it will be for one payment per month.

So if the SMI has increased to €1,184 across 14 payments that equals €16,576 per year. Divided across 12 payments, this will be €1,381.33 per month.

A total of 200 percent of the SMI is needed to meet the DNV’s monthly earnings requirement.

This means you now need to earn €2,762 per month to be eligible for Spain’s Digital Nomad Visa in 2025.

At the current exchange rate, that is £2,310 a month or $2,871 a month.

The increase is more than €100 a month than what an individual non-EU national applying for the DNV in 2024 needed, when the income requirement was €2,646.

Family Members

If you’re applying for the DNV for yourself and your partner you need to prove you earn an extra 75 percent of Spain’s minimum wage, which is €1,035.99 extra in 2025. Added together with the amount you need for just yourself, this equals €3,798 per month in monthly earnings for you and your partner to qualify for the DNV in 2025.

For each additional family member after this, such as children, you will have to prove you have an extra 25 percent of the SMI, which is now an extra €345,33 per month in 2025.

So if you’re applying for the DNV for yourself, your partner and your one child in 2025, you’ll have to show you earn €4,144 per month. Add another child to the equation, and you’ll have show monthly earnings of €4,489.

Keep in mind that these are gross amounts, known as bruto in Spanish.

Spain’s Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz has said this minimum wage increase will be approved in the Spanish Cabinet “imminently”, which should mean that UGE (Unidad de Grandes Empresas y Colectivos Estratégicos), the body that processes digital nomad visas, will factor in the changes to the DNV’s financial requirements shortly.