Ethiopia National minimum wage (none in force)
Ethiopia National minimum wage (none in force): no single figure applies. The reason is set out below, cited to the governing instrument. Last checked against the official source on 11 Sep 2026.
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 | no single figure |
|---|---|
| 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 | 2026-09-11 |
| 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
# $0.005 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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The same figure elsewhere: Gabon · Ghana · Kenya · Lesotho · Mali · all 34