Ethiopia minimum wage
Ethiopia has no enforceable national statutory minimum wage for the private sector. Labour Proclamation No. 1156/2019, Article 55(2), delegates minimum-wage setting to a tripartite Wage Board to be constituted by a Council of Ministers regulation — which has not established a binding national figure.
| Current value | structured — see the API |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2019-09-05 |
| Official source | Labour Proclamation No. 1156/2019, Article 55(2) — Ministry of Justice (Federal Negarit Gazeta No. 89, 5 Sep 2019) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-15 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Served as null rather than a guess: no enforceable national statutory minimum wage exists for private-sector workers. Article 55(2) provides that 'A Regulation of the Council of Ministers shall determine the powers and responsibilities of a Wage Board ... that will periodically revise minimum wages' — that regulation has not been issued and the Wage Board has not set a binding national rate as of 2026-07-15. Minimums exist only within the public sector (federal civil service floors, reportedly raised to ~ETB 6,000/month in Sep 2025) and via sectoral/collective agreements; those are not national statutory floors and are not published here as the national value. The ILO has been supporting minimum-wage-setting discussions. Monitor the Ministry of Labour and Skills (mols.gov.et) and the Federal Negarit Gazeta — adoption of the Wage Board regulation is the event most likely to change this record. Official proclamation text also mirrored at mols.gov.et/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Labour-proclamation-1156.pdf.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/et/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/et/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
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