Bangladesh minimum wage

What this value means

effective_from is the date of the Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 (Act No. XLII of 2006) — the instrument that established the sectoral Minimum Wages Board mechanism IN PLACE OF a national floor, i.e. the date from which the absence of a general minimum wage has its current statutory basis. STRUCTURAL NULL - Bangladesh has NO national minimum wage. There is no statutory instrument setting a wage floor applicable to workers generally. Under the Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 (ss.138-149) the government constitutes a Minimum Wages Board (Niunatam Mojuri Board) which recommends a wage structure for a NAMED INDUSTRY, and the recommendation acquires legal force only when the Ministry of Labour and Employment publishes it in the Bangladesh Gazette; each such declaration binds only that industry, with its own grade ladder, basic/house-rent/medical split and annual increment. Approximately 42 industries have ever been declared, out of an estimated 140+ formal and informal sectors; roughly 85% of the labour force works informally and is covered by no gazetted floor at all. The Act's five-year review cycle is widely unmet, so declared floors for many sectors are years or decades stale and are not mutually comparable. The most prominent floor is the ready-made garment (RMG) sector: gazetted by the Ministry of Labour and Employment on 12 November 2023 on the recommendation of the RMG Minimum Wages Board, effective from 1 December 2023, setting the entry-level minimum - Grade 5, the lowest rung of a ladder compressed from seven grades to five - at BDT 12,500 gross per month, composed of BDT 6,700 basic, BDT 3,350 house rent (50% of basic), BDT 750 medical, BDT 450 conveyance and BDT 1,250 food allowance, with a 5% annual increment. That is a 56.25% increase on the BDT 8,000 Grade-7 floor set in 2018. Higher grades run from BDT 13,025 (Grade 4) to BDT 14,750 (Grade 1). This figure is DELIBERATELY NOT SERVED as the country value because it binds only RMG establishments and is neither the lowest nor a general floor: other declared sectors sit both below and above it, and a lowest-floor-across-sectors figure cannot be computed because the Ministry does not publish a consolidated, current, machine-readable schedule of all 42 declarations. NO PROXY IS SERVED. Consumers needing an RMG-specific figure should treat BDT 12,500/month (1 Dec 2023) as sector-specific, not national. ACCESS: the Minimum Wages Board portal (mwb.portal.gov.bd) failed TLS verification ('unable to verify the first certificate') on 2026-07-20 and could not be loaded to enumerate the sectoral gazettes; the source cited is the enabling statute on the Legislative Division portal bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd (Bengali text, UTF-16-encoded HTML, plain-text extraction requires forcing the encoding) - it is the MECHANISM, not a wage figure; re-verification of any sectoral rate must go through Ministry of Labour and Employment gazette notifications directly.

Get it programmatically

curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/bd/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History:    curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/bd/minimum-wage/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://asiaref.dev/provenance/bd/minimum-wage

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