Uganda National minimum wage (statutory, archaic)
Uganda National minimum wage (statutory, archaic) is 6000 UGX/month, in force since 28 Sep 1984. Last checked against the official source on 15 Aug 2026.
Uganda's only national minimum wage order — SI No. 38 of 1984 — never revised since. Served as the statutory truth with full caveats.
| Current value | 6000 UGX/month (old shillings as enacted in 1984; equals ~UGX 60/month after the May 1987 100:1 currency reform) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 1984-09-28 |
| Official source | Uganda Gazette Vol. LXXVII No. 39, 28 Sep 1984 — SI No. 38 of 1984, The Minimum Wages Order (ULII) |
| Last verified | 2026-08-15 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
STATUTORY TRUTH, FAMOUSLY ARCHAIC: set at Shs 6,000/month (~US$1 in 1984) and never revised in 42 years; economically void and unenforced. NOT LAW (never enacted, do not use as current): the 1995 board recommendation (Ush 75,000/65,000), the 2017 board recommendation (UGX 136,000/month — aggregators wrongly display UGX 130,000 as if current), and the Minimum Wage Bill 2015 (passed Feb 2019, denied presidential assent Aug 2019, lapsed). The Employment (Amendment) Act 2025 (assented 29 Apr 2026) overhauled wage-advisory machinery but fixed no national minimum; ministerial sector wage orders may follow — none gazetted as of 2026-07-15.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ug/minimum-wage
# $0.005 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ug/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://afriref.dev/provenance/ug/minimum-wageOther Uganda series: Bank of Uganda central bank rate · VAT standard rate · VAT registration threshold · Public holidays · CPI inflation (year-on-year) · Corporate income tax rate · Withholding tax rates · Statutory late-payment interest · Personal income tax brackets · Statutory social-insurance contributions
The same figure elsewhere: Zambia · Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · all 34