Rwanda Statutory minimum wage (none in force)
Rwanda Statutory 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 15 Jul 2026.
Rwanda has no enforceable national statutory minimum wage: Article 68 of Law No. 66/2018 delegates it to a ministerial order that has never been issued.
| Current value | no single figure |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2018-09-06 |
| Official source | Law No. 66/2018 Regulating Labour in Rwanda, Article 68 (Official Gazette no. Special of 06/09/2018, Ministry of Justice) |
| 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as null rather than a guess: the widely quoted SMIG of RWF 100/day dates from a 1970s ministerial order under a long-repealed labour code — obsolete, unenforced, and untraceable to any official primary source, so it is not published as current. A MIFOTRA draft ministerial order has been pending for years; monitor mifotra.gov.rw and the Official Gazette — its adoption is the event most likely to change this record. Judicial reference only (not statute): the Supreme Court used RWF 3,000/day in Soras AG Ltd v Umuhoza (2016). In practice wages are set by market forces and sectoral agreements.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/rw/minimum-wage
# $0.005 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/rw/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
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The same figure elsewhere: Senegal · South Africa · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · all 34