Country__ Minimum wage__
_Argentina 1,240 Argentine pesos a month, nationally[4]
_Australia 543.78 Australian dollars per week; set federally by the Australian Fair Pay Commission[4]
_Bangladesh 1,800 taka a month; set nationally every five years by the National Minimum Wage Board in a tripartite forum for all economic sectors not covered by industry- specific wages, using a skill-level range[4]
_Bhutan 99.44 Bhutanese ngultrum per day plus various allowances paid in cash or kind[4]
_Bolivia 577 Bolivian bolivianos per month for the public and private sectors[4]
_Brazil 465.00 reais per month[9]
_Cambodia equivalent to US$50 per month, plus a minimum $6 living allowance, for the garment sector; none for any other industry[4]
_Canada set by each province and territory; ranges from C$8.00 to C$10.00 per hour[11]
_Chile 159,000 Chilean pesos per month for those aged 18–65; 118,690 pesos for those younger than 18 and for those older than 65; and 102,558 pesos for 'non remunerative' purposes[12]; 83% of the 18–65 minimum wage for domestic servants[13]
_People's Republic of China none, nationally; set locally according to standards laid out by the central government[4]
_Republic of China (Taiwan) NT$17,280 a month; NT$104 per hour[4]
_Colombia 433,700 Colombian pesos a month; established by the government every January, serving as a benchmark for wage bargaining[4][14]
_Costa Rica ranging from 107,883 Costa Rican colones a month for domestic employees to 397,665 colones for university graduates; set anually by the National Wage Council[4]
_Cuba it varies by occupation; on average, 225 Cuban pesos a month; supplemented by the government with free education, subsidized medical care (daily pay is reduced by 40 percent after the third day of a hospital stay), housing, and some subsidized food[4]
_East Timor not stipulated in law; in practice, US$85 per month[4]
_India N/A; varies according to the state and to the sector of industry; state governments set a separate minimum wage for agricultural workers[4]
_Indonesia established by provincial and district authorities, which vary by province, district, and sector; as high as 1,100,000 rupiah per month in Papua; as low as 500,000 rupiah per month in East Java[4]
_Japan ranges from 618 Japanese yen to 739 yen per hour; set on a prefectural and industry basis[4]
_North Korea
_South Korea 3,770 South Korean won per hour; reviewed annually[4]
_Laos 11,154 Lao kip a day for private sector workers; 290,000 Lao kip a month; 405,000 kip for civil servants and state enterprise employees, often complemented with government benefits and housing subsidies[4]
_Malaysia none, nationally; 350 Malaysian ringgit per month for plantation workers; raised to 700 ringgit by productivity incentives and bonuses[4]
_Marshall Islands US$2.00 per hour for government and private sector employees[4]
_Mexico daily minimum wages set anually by law and determined by zone; 52.3 Mexican pesos in Zona A (Baja California, Federal District, State of Mexico, and large cities), 50.96 pesos in Zone B (Sonora, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Jalisco), and 49.50 pesos in Zone C (all other states)[4]
_Mongolia nearly 108,000 Mongolian tögrög per month for public and private sector workers[4]
_Myanmar 15,000 Myanma kyat a month for salaried public employees; 500 kyat per day for day laborers, supplemented by various subsidies and allowances[4]
_Nepal 4,600 Nepalese rupees a month for unskilled labor (3,050 rupees as a basic salary, and 1,550 rupees as an allowance); 4,650 NRS for semi-skilled labor; 4,760 NRS for skilled labor; 4,950 NRS for highly skilled labor[4]
_New Zealand NZ$12.00 per hour for workers 18 years old or older, and NZ$9.60 per hour for those aged 16 or 17 or in training; there is no statutory minimum wage for employees who are under 16 years old[34]
_Palau US$2.50 per hour; does not include foreign workers[4]
_Panama ranges from 1.01 to 1.87 Panamanian balboas per hour, depending on the region and sector[4]
_Papua New Guinea 37.50 Papua New Guinean kina per week for adult workers in the private sector; 75% of the adult minimum wage for new entrants into the labor force between 16 and 21 years of age[4]
_Paraguay 1,341,775 Paraguayan guaraníes per month; there is no public sector minimum wage; 40% of the minimum wage for domestic workers[36][4]
_Peru 550 Peruvian nuevos soles per month[4]
_Philippines ranges from P187 a day for agricultural workers in the Southern Tagalog Region to P382 a day for nonagricultural workers in the National Capital Region; set by tripartite regional wage boards[4]
_Singapore
_Sri Lanka 6,750 rupees per month in 43 trades[4]
_Thailand ranges from 148 Thai baht to 203 baht per day, depending on the cost of living in various provinces; set by provincial tripartite wage committees that sometimes include only employer representatives[4]
_United Kingdom £5.73 per hour (aged 22 and older), £4.77 per hour (aged 18-21) or £3.53 per hour (under 18 and finished compulsory education)[44]
_United States the federal minimum wage is US$6.55 per hour; states may also set a minimum, in which case the higher of the two is controlling[45]
_Venezuela 799 Venezuelan bolívares (bolívar fuerte) per month[46]
_Vietnam official monthly minimum wage for unskilled laborers at foreign-invested joint ventures and foreign and international organizations: 1,000,000 VND in the urban districts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; 900,000 VND in the suburban districts of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and several other industrial districts and towns; and 800,000 VND elsewhere; the government may temporarily exempt certain joint ventures from paying the minimum wage during the first months of an enterprise's operations or if the enterprise is located in a very remote area, but the minimum monthly wage in these cases can be no lower than 800,000 VND; the official monthly minimum wage for unskilled labor in the state sector was 540,000 VND in the provinces and 620,000 VND in the urban districts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City[4]
