Minimum Wages in Chandigarh

How Chandigarh sets minimum wages

Chandigarh's schedule is compressed: the whole range from unskilled to highly skilled spans only ₹1,075 a month, and semi-skilled and skilled each split into grades I and II a hundred or two hundred rupees apart. Office staff are graded in three classes that sit within the same band. The union territory notifies twice a year but late. The April 2026 revision was signed on 7 September 2026, five months after it took effect, and added ₹175 a month to every category on a 25-point rise in the cost of living index. Employers who paid the October 2025 figures from April to August 2026 owe ₹175 a month per employee in arrears for those months. The October 2026 revision is due now and, on past form, will arrive late and backdated. The rates are consolidated, with the dearness allowance built into the single figure, and the daily rate is the monthly figure divided by 26. Hotels, restaurants, tea stalls and halwai shops have a separate schedule with lower rates where food and lodging are provided. Chandigarh follows the Punjab pattern of a development tax on salaried employees.