• October 15, 2025

• Global New Light of Myanmar

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Workers at a local private workplace

Due to the additional raise in extra allowance, wage per-day for casual labourers from private sector has now risen to K7800.

The National Committee for Setting the Minimum Wage announced on 14 October that additional K1000 of the extra allowance was added on wage per day of factory workers in the private sector.

With the approval by the Union Government, the committee set the minimum wage of K4800 for 8-hour per workday-K600 per hour for workers in Myanmar on 14 May 2028 , without discrimination on locations and business types. This is the third increase added to the minimum wage set in 2018.

First increase K1000 made on 1 October 2013 and second increase K1000 made in August 2024. With this third increase K1000, the extra allowance has been now K3000 so the minimum wage of day labourers will be now K7800.

The committee said the entitlement of total extra allowance K3000 takes into effect as of 1 October 2025, under the 1951 the Leave and Holiday Act. The additional allowance shall not be counted for small business and family businesses with less than 10 workers, it added.

Htun Htun/ZS