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Minimum Wages in Gujarat

Minimum wage rates for shops and commercial establishments in Gujarat, by skill category and wage zone, with the effective date and the next revision due.

Effective from1 April 2026
Next revision due1 October 2026
Revision cycle1 April and 1 October each year

Gujarat minimum wage rates: shops and commercial establishments

Zone I

Areas within municipal corporation limits, municipality limits, and the jurisdiction of urban development authorities and nagar palikas.

Skill categoryBasicVDAPer dayTotal per month
Unskilled₹11,752₹1,573₹512.50₹13,325
Semi-skilled₹12,012₹1,573₹522.50₹13,585
Skilled₹12,324₹1,573₹534.50₹13,897

Zone II

All other areas of the state.

Skill categoryBasicVDAPer dayTotal per month
Unskilled₹11,466₹1,573₹501.50₹13,039
Semi-skilled₹11,752₹1,573₹512.50₹13,325
Skilled₹12,012₹1,573₹522.50₹13,585

Rates cover shops and commercial establishments only. Other employments notified in Gujarat carry their own notified rates, which are usually higher. Verify against the state notification before running payroll.

How Gujarat sets minimum wages

Governing law

Code on Wages, 2019, in force from 21 November 2025. The rates below come from the Labour, Skill Development and Employment Department's revision effective 1 April 2026.

Employment covered

Shops and commercial establishments

Revision cycle

1 April and 1 October each year

Official source

Labour, Skill Development and Employment Department, Government of Gujarat: minimum wages revision effective 1 April 2026 ↗

Gujarat calls its dearness component a special allowance and fixes it per day: ₹60.50 for April to September 2026, or ₹1,573 a month at 26 days. The basic rates are also per day, and the monthly figures above are those daily rates multiplied by 26. The structure is unusually flat. Zone I unskilled and Zone II semi-skilled pay the same, as do Zone I semi-skilled and Zone II skilled, so the whole schedule runs across only four distinct figures. There is no highly skilled category for shops. Gujarat notifies 46 scheduled employments; private security, hospitals and the plastics industry have their own tables. The state has kept to its April and October dates more reliably than most.

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Checked against the source notification on 6 September 2026

Frequently asked questions: Gujarat minimum wages

For shops and commercial establishments from 1 April 2026, ₹512.50 a day or ₹13,325 a month for unskilled work in Zone I and ₹501.50 or ₹13,039 in Zone II. Skilled work is ₹534.50 or ₹13,897 in Zone I and ₹522.50 or ₹13,585 in Zone II.
Every municipal corporation and municipality area, plus land under an urban development authority or nagar palika. Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and every municipal town are Zone I. Zone II is the rest of the state.
It is Gujarat's name for the variable dearness allowance. It is fixed per day, ₹60.50 for April to September 2026, is the same for every category and zone, and is revised every six months on the average cost of living index for the previous half-year.
Daily basic plus daily special allowance, multiplied by 26. For unskilled work in Zone I, ₹452 plus ₹60.50 is ₹512.50 a day, which is ₹13,325 a month.

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