Vietnam minimum wage
Statutory regional monthly minimum wage for employees under labour contracts. Vietnam operates a four-region matrix; the lowest region's floor is served.
| Current value | 3700000 VND/month |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| Official source | Nghi dinh so 293/2025/ND-CP ngay 10/11/2025 cua Chinh phu quy dinh muc luong toi thieu doi voi nguoi lao dong lam viec theo hop dong lao dong, Dieu 3 khoan 1 (hieu luc 01/01/2026; bai bo Nghi dinh 74/2024/ND-CP ngay 30/6/2024) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
MATRIX JURISDICTION - value served is the LOWEST general statutory floor, Vung IV. Full Article 3(1) table effective 1 January 2026, transcribed from the signed decree PDF: Vung I 5,310,000 VND/month (25,500 VND/hour); Vung II 4,730,000 VND/month (22,700 VND/hour); Vung III 4,140,000 VND/month (20,000 VND/hour); Vung IV 3,700,000 VND/month (17,800 VND/hour). Average uplift 7.2% over Nghi dinh 74/2024/ND-CP (increases of 250,000-350,000 VND/month by region). Region is determined by the EMPLOYER's place of operation, not the employee's residence (Art. 3(3)): Vung I covers the urban cores of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and the main industrial belts; Vung IV covers remaining rural districts. The geographic schedule is in the Phu luc annexed to the decree, and after the 2025 provincial mergers Vietnam's 34 provinces/cities each contain multiple regions - Art. 3(3)(d)-(dd) provide that a locality renamed or split provisionally keeps its pre-change region, while a locality newly formed by merging areas of different regions takes the HIGHEST applicable minimum until the Government legislates again. Employers in industrial parks / export-processing zones / hi-tech or concentrated digital-technology zones straddling regions must apply the highest region's rate (Art. 3(3)(c)). The hourly floor is a genuine separate statutory figure, not a derived conversion; weekly, daily, piece-rate and lump-sum pay must convert to no less than the monthly or hourly floor per Art. 4(3). There is NO separate sectoral or agricultural minimum wage. Art. 5(4) preserves the pre-existing contractual practice of paying at least 7% above the minimum for jobs requiring vocational training, but this is a protection of existing agreements, not a statutory premium created by this decree - do not treat 3,959,000 as the Vung IV floor. Note the distinct 'muc luong co so' (public-sector base salary, 2,340,000 VND/month under Nghi dinh 73/2024/ND-CP) is a different instrument governing civil-service pay coefficients and is NOT a minimum wage. ACCESS QUIRK: vanban.chinhphu.vn was returning HTTP 500 maintenance errors on 2026-07-20; the signed PDF was fetched instead from the Government's own CDN (xdcs.cdnchinhphu.vn) and the Article 3 table extracted directly from the PDF text layer. An automated summariser misread this table (returning 5,300,000/4,680,000/4,160,000/3,750,000) - the figures above are from direct text extraction of the signed original.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | 3070000 | Nghi dinh so 90/2019/ND-CP ngay 15/11/2019 cua Chinh phu quy |
| 2022-07-01 | 3250000 | Nghi dinh so 38/2022/ND-CP ngay 12/6/2022 cua Chinh phu quy |
| 2024-07-01 | 3450000 | Nghi dinh so 74/2024/ND-CP ngay 30/6/2024 cua Chinh phu, Die |
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