Minimum Wage Updates: Latest Changes and Effective Dates
How have Minimum Wages changed across US states? Who can benefit from the new rates in Australia, India, Mauritania? And more. All the latest Minimum Wage changes worldwide.
10 September 2026
Between June and September 2026, we’ve published 26 Minimum Wage updates. From national revisions to sector- and region-specific changes, these updates show how Minimum Wage systems respond to changing economic and labour conditions.
WageIndicator’s Minimum Wage Database tracks these developments on a regular basis, providing clear, up-to-date information that keeps workers, employers, researchers and policymakers up to date with the latest statutory wage information.
Minimum Wage Changes In The World
Here are the latest Minimum Wage changes, curated and ready. Between June and September, Minimum Wages were revised in the following countries and regions:
- Netherlands
- Romania
- USA (Alaska, California, Illinois, Maryland, St. Paul-Minnesota, Washington DC, Oregon, Washington State, and District of Columbia)
- Jamaica
- Argentina (National minimum wage (July) and National minimum wage (August).
- Australia
- India (West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Maharashtra)
- Kosovo
- Chile
- Suriname
- Philippines (NCR - National Capital Region)
- Cuba
- Malawi
- Haiti
- Monaco
- Mauritania
- Uruguay
- Singapore
- Paraguay
- Kenya
- New Caledonia
- Tunisia
- Gibraltar
- Pakistan (Islamabad, Sindh)
- Zimbabwe
- Andorra
Visit the WageIndicator global Minimum Wage database, per country.
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