Oman minimum wage
Oman's statutory wage floor is NOT a universal minimum wage. It is a nationality-scoped floor that applies only to OMANI NATIONALS employed in the private sector, fixed by Ministerial Decision No. 222 of 2013 (Ministry of Manpower, now Ministry of Labour) at OMR 325 per month made up of an OMR 225 basic wage plus OMR 100 in allowances. Expatriate/migrant private-sector workers are NOT covered by any statutory minimum wage in Oman. Under the Labour Law promulgated by Royal Decree No. 53/2023, Article 88, the minimum wage is set by decision of the Minister of Labour after consultation with the Committee for Joint Dialogue between Production Parties and approval by the Council of Ministers.
| Current value | structured — see the API |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2013-07-01 |
| Official source | Ministerial Order (Decision) No. 222 of 2013 fixing the Minimum Wage for Omani Workers in the Private Sector — ILO NATLEX national legislation record; enabling provision now Article 88 of the Labour Law promulgated by Royal Decree No. 53/2023 |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
STRUCTURE, STATED POSITIVELY: the floor is OMR 325/month (OMR 225 basic + OMR 100 allowances) and it binds ONLY for Omani nationals working in the private sector. That scope is on the face of the instrument — Ministerial Decision 222/2013 is titled 'fixing the Minimum Wage for OMANI WORKERS in the Private Sector'. There is NO statutory minimum wage for expatriate/migrant workers in Oman: no ministerial decision fixes one, and expatriate pay is left to contract. This is the opposite of Qatar's Law 17/2020, which is expressly non-discriminatory — do NOT serve OMR 325 as a universal Omani wage floor, and do not compare it like-for-like with national minimum wages elsewhere. Public-sector Omani pay is set by separate civil-service scales, not by this decision. HISTORY: OMR 325 replaced OMR 200 with effect from 1 July 2013 (the prior figure had been set by Ministry of Manpower Decree No. 16/2007). The level has NOT been revised since 2013 — it survived the repeal of the old Labour Law (Royal Decree 35/2003) by the new Labour Law (Royal Decree 53/2023, issued 25 July 2023, in force the day after its 30 July 2023 gazetting), whose Article 88 re-delegates minimum-wage setting to the Minister of Labour. Proposals to raise it (figures of OMR 360-400 have circulated in Omani press and union statements) are NOT enacted — DO NOT SERVE AS FACT; there is no decision and no effective date. SEPARATE INSTRUMENT, DO NOT CONFLATE: the mandatory annual periodic increment for Omani private-sector workers is governed by Ministerial Decision No. 317/2025 (Ministry of Labour, Official Gazette 1606), which repealed Ministerial Decision 541/2013 and, from 1 January 2026, replaces the flat 3% annual rise with a performance-banded 5%/4%/3%/2%/0% of basic wage for workers with at least six months' service. That is an increment rule, not the wage floor. ACCESS NOTE: the ILO NATLEX detail page returned HTTP 403 to automated fetches from this location (the record is indexed and its title/abstract are retrievable via search); mol.gov.om English pages return a 404 service-unavailable shell; decree.om holds a translation of Decision 222/2013 behind a paywall. There is no free official Omani URL that states the figure — re-verify against the Ministry of Labour or the Official Gazette when reachable.
Get it programmatically
curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/om/minimum-wage
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