Rwanda minimum wage
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 | structured — see the API |
|---|---|
| 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as null rather than a guess: the widely quoted SMIG of RWF 100/day dates from a 1970s ministerial order under a long-repealed labour code — obsolete, unenforced, and untraceable to any official primary source, so it is not published as current.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
# $0.001 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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