UPDATE: Now with embedded code.
I was looking for some data on minimum wages in various countries and found that Wikipedia (perhaps unsurprisingly) has a very nice, well-annotated table. After downloading the data & cleaning it a bit (harder than it should be), I made several plots. There were too many countries for one plot, so I made one for each (approximate) quartile. At the end of the blog post is the R code I used for fetching the data & making the plots.
Fourth Quartile
NB: Some countries have exemption policies for worker or occupation characteristics, so for a more complete understanding, of say, why Australia appears to have a minimum wage more than 2x the US minimum wage, check the Wikipedia table.
Third Quartile
Second Quartile
First Quartile
Distribution of Minimum Wages
Below is a some R code for grabbing the table of country-specific minimum wages from Wikipedia.