Minimum Wage – Mainland - Domestic and Hospital Services

  • Valid on October 2025
  • The amounts are in Tanzanian Shilling.

Industry

Per Hour Per Day Per week Per Two Weeks Per month
Potential and Tourists hotel
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
TZS1,539.00 TZS11,539.00 TZS69,236.00 TZS138,472.00 TZS300,000.00
Medium Hotels
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
TZS923.00 TZS6,924.00 TZS41,452.00 TZS83,083.00 TZS180,000.00
Restaurants, Guest Houses and Bars
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
TZS769.00 TZS5,770.00 TZS34,618.00 TZS69,236.00 TZS150,000.00
Other domestic workers
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
- - - - TZS40,000.00
Domestic Workers other than those employed by diplomats and potential businessmen and entitled officers who are not residing in the household of the employer
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
TZS615.00 TZS4,616.00 TZS27,694.00 TZS55,389.00 TZS120,000.00
Domestic Workers employed by entitled officers
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
TZS1,026.00 TZS7,693.00 TZS46,157.00 TZS92,315.00 TZS200,000.00
Domestic Workers employed by Diplomats and Potential businessmen
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2023
TZS1,282.00 TZS9,616.00 TZS57,697.00 TZS115,393.00 TZS250,000.00

Working hours

  • Monthly Salary - Monthly Rate is calculated on a basis of 26 working days per month or 234 hours per month.
    Salary per day - Daily rate is calculated on the basis of 9 working hours per day.
    Salary per week - Weekly rate is calculated on a basis of 45 hours a week or 6 working days per week.
    Salary after two weeks - Two weekly rates are calculated on 12-hour basis basis for work.

Definitions

Zanzibar: Job hours are 42 hours a week - 6 working days in the week and 7 working hours each day. However the clock can be added up to 45 after the agreement. In time limit duty you can be added up to 48 hours a week.

The date of the corrective amendments to minimum wage rates will not be announced by the Government. However, the current salary is expected to last for the next three years (up to 2016).

Source

Payment Time Count - According to Section 19 of the Employment and Labor Relations Act, 2004

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