Benin minimum wage
Salaire minimum interprofessionnel garanti - the national interprofessional statutory wage floor of Benin.
| Current value | 52000 XOF/month |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2023-01-01 |
| Official source | Decret n. 2022-692 du 07 decembre 2022 portant relevement du salaire minimum interprofessionnel garanti (Presidence de la Republique, published on the Secretariat General du Gouvernement portal) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Article premier raises the SMIG from 40,000 to 52,000 FCFA (+30%) 'pour compter du 1er janvier 2023'. Single national interprofessional floor (not a regional/sectoral matrix); referenced to the statutory 40-hour work week of the Labour Code (Loi n. 98-004 du 27 janvier 1998); violations fined per Art. 309 of the Labour Code (Art. 2 of the decree). Art. 4 abrogates decret n. 2014-292 du 24 avril 2014 (previous SMIG). Sectoral collective agreements set higher category minima above this floor. Unchanged as of July 2026 - no revaluation decree since. Access quirk: the decree PDF on sgg.gouv.bj is a scanned image with no text layer; verified by reading the scan (signed P. Talon, countersigned R. Wadagni and A. Mathys).
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-24 | 40000 | — |
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/bj/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/bj/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
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