Algeria minimum wage
Algeria's single national statutory minimum wage. There are no occupational or regional variants. It is fixed by presidential decree under articles 80, 81 and 87 of Loi n° 90-11 du 21 avril 1990 relative aux relations de travail, expressed as a monthly amount for the legal working week of 40 hours (173.33 hours per month); the pay elements that count towards it are set by Décret exécutif n° 15-59 du 8 février 2015.
| Current value | 24000 DZD/month (40-hour week = 173.33 h/month; hourly equivalent 138.46 DZD) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| Official source | Décret présidentiel n° 26-01 du 18 Rajab 1447 correspondant au 7 janvier 2026 fixant le salaire national minimum garanti, Article 1er: « ... est fixé à vingt-quatre mille dinars (24.000 DA) par mois, soit un taux horaire de 138,46 dinars » — Art. 3: « Le présent décret prend effet, à compter du 1er janvier 2026 » (Journal Officiel de la République Algérienne n° 01 du 8 janvier 2026, p. 8-9) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
CORRECTION TO THE BRIEF THAT COMMISSIONED THIS FILE: the SNMG is NOT 20,000 DZD. It was raised to 24,000 DZD (+20 %) by Décret présidentiel n° 26-01 of 7 January 2026, retroactively effective 1 January 2026 — verified in the gazette text itself, which expressly abrogates the 2021 decree. This is the fourth SNMG level since 2010 (12,000 → 15,000 → 18,000 → 20,000 → 24,000). The decree is signed by the President (Abdelmadjid Tebboune) and takes effect on a date stated in its own Article 3, which in Algeria's practice is often BEFORE the publication date — the 2021 decree was signed on 7 April 2021 but back-dated to 1 June 2020, a ten-month retroactivity. Consumers keying off publication dates will therefore mis-date this series; use the Article 3 date, as done here. The SNMG is the reference amount for a wide range of statutory ceilings and thresholds elsewhere in Algerian law (social-security caps, small-business eligibility thresholds, allowances expressed as multiples of the SNMG). METHOD NOTE: verified by scanning every French-language issue of the Journal Officiel published in 2026 (n° 01 to n° 52, to 21 July 2026) for texts fixing the SNMG — n° 01 is the only one. The Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement's annual 'Etat des textes législatifs et réglementaires publiés' (joradp.dz/TRV/F<year>B14.pdf) was used the same way to confirm no SNMG decree was published in 2017-2020 or 2022-2025.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 | 18000 | Décret présidentiel n° 11-407 du 4 Moharram 1433 corresponda |
| 2020-06-01 | 20000 | Décret présidentiel n° 21-137 du 24 Chaâbane 1442 correspond |
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/dz/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/dz/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
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