Minimum Wages in Chile with effect from 01-08-2013 to 31-07-2014

Expected date of revision: 01-07-2015
Last update: 15-07-2014
Currency: CLP (Peso chileno)
Minimum Wage per Month
210,000.00
Days per month specified: 26

Notes / Footnote

  • The evolution of the minimum wage in recent years has been as follows:
2003: $ 115.648
2004: $ 120.000
2005: $ 127.500
2006: $ 135.000
2007: $ 144.000
2008: $ 159.000
2009: $ 165.000
2010: $ 172.000
2011: $ 182.000
2012: $ 193.000
2013: $ 210.000
  1. A minimum wage set-up for 18 months has been established, according to which minimum wages from July 1 2015 to December 31, 2015 will be 241.000 pesos and from January 2016 250.000 pesos.
  2. Calculation of working hours in Chile: As per article 22 of the Labour Code, the duration of an ordinary working day should not exceed 45 hours per week. Article 28 of the labour code says that this weekly maximum limit shall not be distributed in more than 6 days and less than 5 days. So the average working hours a day comes out to be  7.5 hours (45/6). Article 44 of the labour code says that the remuneration may be fixed by time, unit, week, month but should not be less than minimum wage.
  3. This page is maintained by Tusalario.org/Chile and WageIndicator Foundation.