Burkina Faso minimum wage

What this value means

Read off the scanned original decree published by the Ministere de la Fonction publique, du Travail et de la Protection sociale, not from press reports. TWO-TIER MATRIX - the served value is the general (non-agricultural) floor, per the convention of serving the lowest general statutory floor and decomposing the matrix here. Art. 2 (all workers OTHER than those of agricultural undertakings, excluding persons on an apprenticeship contract): hourly 259.62 XOF; monthly 45,000 XOF. Art. 3 (workers of agricultural undertakings as defined by the regulations in force, again excluding apprentices) - the SMAG: hourly 239.69 XOF; daily rate for an 8-hour day 1,917.52 XOF. Note the agricultural schedule is stated ONLY as hourly and daily figures - the decree fixes no monthly SMAG - so the two tiers are not directly comparable on a monthly basis; at the legal 173.33-hour month the agricultural hourly rate implies roughly 41,545 XOF/month, but that arithmetic is ours, not the decree's, and is offered only for orientation. Apprentices are carved out of both tiers entirely. Art. 4 expressly repeals all prior contrary provisions, 'notamment le decret n.2006-066/PRES/PM/MTSS/MFB du 29 decembre 2006 fixant les salaires minima interprofessionnels garantis' - that repealed-instrument number is taken from the face of the 2023 decree and corrects the widely circulated but wrong citation 'decret 2006-655'. Legal basis is art. 187 of loi n.028-2008/AN du 13 mai 2008 portant Code du travail; revision runs through the tripartite Commission Nationale du SMIG, created by the companion decret n.2023-1587/PRES-TRANS/PM/MFPTPS/MEFP of the same date. ARCHAIC-VALUE HONESTY: 45,000 XOF/month is roughly 78 USD and has NOT been revised since November 2023 despite the intervening period; it remains the statutory truth and is served as such. Beware a specific contamination in circulation: some aggregator pages state a Burkinabe SMIG of 'about 60,000 FCFA' - that figure has no decree behind it and is wrong. Access note: the two decree PDFs on fonction-publique.gov.bf are image-only scans with no text layer and had to be rendered and read visually; they are linked from a TYPO3 news page whose URL carries a cHash parameter and may not be stable.

Earlier values

Get it programmatically

curl https://afriref.dev/v1/bf/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History:    curl https://afriref.dev/v1/bf/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://afriref.dev/provenance/bf/minimum-wage

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