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Minimum wage in Africa 2026: by country
The legal minimum wage in 15 African countries, taken from the law or gazette that sets it. Figures are in each country's own currency and are not converted, because pay periods and rules differ.
8 of 15 countries have a national minimum wage with a confirmed figure in our data. Some pay by the month, some by the day and some by the hour, so read each row in its own period. For 7, there is no national figure to show, and the table says why.
No national figure to show
| Country | What the law says | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | Cameroon sets its minimum wage (SMIG) by decree. A 2024 decree on state employees repealed the 2023 decree that set the general rate, so the current general rate could not be confirmed from an official text and is not shown. | Cameroon page |
| Ethiopia | Ethiopia has no general private-sector minimum wage: the 2019 Labour Proclamation provides for a Wage Board to set one, but it has not been set up. | Ethiopia page |
| Morocco | Morocco sets an hourly minimum wage for industry, trade and services (SMIG) and a daily one for agriculture (SMAG) by decree. The current decree could not be retrieved from the official gazette site, so no figure is shown. | Morocco page |
| Rwanda | Rwanda's 2018 labour law says a ministerial order will set the minimum wage, but no order has been issued, so there is no enforceable national minimum wage. | Rwanda page |
| Senegal | Senegal sets its minimum wage as an hourly rate by decree (370.526 F CFA an hour for non-farm work, 236.865 for farm work), and higher sector minimums are set by collective agreements. The 2023 decree could not be opened on an official site, so the latest confirmed rate is shown in the history only. | Senegal page |
| Uganda | Uganda has no minimum wage in force today: the law lets the Minister appoint wages boards, but no rate has been set, and Parliament's 2015 Minimum Wage Bill was not signed into law. | Uganda page |
| Zambia | Zambia has no single national minimum wage. The Minister sets minimum wages by statutory instrument for groups of workers; the rates by group are in the table below (basic pay, before housing, transport and lunch allowances). | Zambia page |
Sources: the gazette, statutory instrument or labour ministry notice named in each row, retrieved 10 Oct 2026. Amounts are shown as published and are not compared across currencies. See our methods. Related: public holidays in Africa.