The minimum wages database provides information on minimum wage legislation in about 100 ILO member States. The information is divided into 6 main areas:

• The determination mechanism. Is the minimum wage fixed by an authority such as the State or a Wage Board, social partners via collective bargaining, or are both of these procedures used?
• Coverage of the legislation. Which categories of workers are entitled to receive a wage at least equal to the minimum wage?
• Criteria used to introduce or adjust the level of the minimum wage.
• Level of the minimum wage in national currency, US dollars and World Bank Purchasing Power Parity dollars¹.
• Frequency of adjustment of minimum wage rates.
• Control mechanisms.

Minimum wage rates for unskilled adult workers are provided. In countries where there is more than one minimum wage rate, a minimum and maximum level has been included. The minimum is the lowest minimum rate applicable to an unskilled adult worker, the maximum is the highest minimum rate applicable to an unskilled adult worker.

Searches can be performed by country, region, subject and text. The user can also find recent changes with the advanced search function and browse the entire database.

The Database was last updated in September 2006.

For further guidance on using the database consult help or minimum wages database summary.

Further information 

Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL), International Labour Office
4, route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland travail@ilo.org

¹Source: Exchange rates - EIU Country Reports, year average (2003); PPP World Bank (2003).

Database of Conditions of Work and Employment Laws Disclaimer: Summaries and full texts in the TRAVAIL Legal Database are provided for information purposes only and are not intended to replace consultation of the authentic legal texts. We update the database regularly but are unable to guarantee that the laws it contains are the most recent version. Please contact us if you have updated information. For information purposes, the Database contains links to other websites; their inclusion does not signify responsibility for, or approval of, their content by the ILO.