Nepal minimum wage
The statutory national minimum remuneration (न्यूनतम पारिश्रमिक) for workers, fixed by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security under section 106(1) of the Labour Act, 2074 on the recommendation of the Minimum Remuneration Fixation Committee constituted under section 107. The Act requires the Ministry to fix it EVERY TWO YEARS; it is expressed as a basic remuneration plus a dearness allowance, and quoted monthly, daily and hourly.
| Current value | 19550 NPR/month total (basic 12,170 + dearness allowance 7,380); daily NPR 754 (470 + 284); hourly NPR 101 (63 + 38); part-time hourly NPR 107 |
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| In force from | 2025-07-17 |
| Official source | Government of Nepal, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (श्रम, रोजगार तथा सामाजिक सुरक्षा मन्त्रालय), Singhadurbar — प्रेस विज्ञप्ति of 2082/04/01 (17 July 2025): under section 106(1) of the Labour Act, 2074 and on the recommendation of the Minimum Remuneration Fixation Committee under section 107, by Ministry decision of 2082/3/32 at Hon. Minister level, the minimum remuneration is fixed as follows with effect from 2082 Shrawan 1 — monthly basic 12,170 + dearness allowance 7,380 = Rs 19,550; daily 470 + 284 = Rs 754; per hour 63 + 38 = Rs 101; and for part-time workers Rs 107 per hour |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
BS YEAR: fixed for the two-year cycle beginning 2082 Shrawan 1 = 17 July 2025, i.e. FY 2082/83 and FY 2083/84 BS. Section 106(1) of the Labour Act, 2074 obliges the Ministry to revise every two years, so the next revision is due with effect from 2084 Shrawan 1 (mid-July 2027) — this figure is CURRENT, not stale, even though it is a year old. THE HEADLINE NUMBER IS A SUM OF TWO COMPONENTS, AND THE SPLIT MATTERS. Nepali minimum wage is legislated as आधारभूत पारिश्रमिक (basic remuneration, Rs 12,170/month) plus महङ्गी भत्ता (dearness allowance, Rs 7,380/month). Several statutory entitlements — provident fund, gratuity and Social Security Fund contributions under the Contribution Based Social Security Act, 2074 — are computed on the BASIC component, not on the Rs 19,550 total, so a payroll that treats Rs 19,550 as 'basic' will over-contribute by roughly 60%. COVERAGE CARVE-OUT: the gazetted table is headed 'चिया बगान बाहेकका श्रमिकहरुको हकमा लागू हुने' — it applies to workers OTHER THAN tea-estate workers. Tea-garden (चिया बगान) workers are fixed separately and are not covered by these figures. PART-TIME IS HIGHER, NOT LOWER: the part-time hourly minimum is Rs 107, above the Rs 101 hourly rate for regular workers — the premium compensates for the absence of the monthly package. ARITHMETIC CHECK: the daily rate is not the monthly divided by 30 (19,550/30 = 651.67, against a legislated 754) and the hourly is not the daily divided by 8 (754/8 = 94.25, against a legislated 101). The three are separately fixed figures; do not derive one from another. PRIOR LEVEL — DO NOT SERVE AS FACT: the widely reported previous figure is Rs 17,300 per month (basic 10,820 + dearness allowance 6,480), Rs 668 per day and Rs 89 per hour, fixed for the cycle from 2080 Shrawan 1 (17 July 2023). The Ministry's website carries only the 2082 press release — no earlier minimum-remuneration notice was retrievable at confirmation — and the Nepal Gazette search endpoint at rajpatra.dop.gov.np returned no results for 'न्यूनतम पारिश्रमिक', so the earlier figures could not be verified against a primary source and no history entry is served. ACCESS: moless.gov.np serves over HTTPS only on the www host (the apex moless.gov.np presents a certificate that does not cover it), and the press release PDF is a SCANNED IMAGE with no text layer — the figures above were read off the rendered page image. dol.gov.np (Department of Labour and Occupational Safety) presented an incomplete certificate chain and could not be fetched.
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