Maharashtra minimum wages — VDA notification for shops and commercial establishments, No. 7997 dated 05.08.2026
- Notification number
- None — this document carries no number
- Issued for
- Maharashtra
- Date
- 5 August 2026
- Topic
- Minimum wages
What it says
Special allowance (VDA) notification of the Labour Commissioner, Mumbai, declaring basic + special allowance = total minimum wage for 67 scheduled employments for 1 July to 31 December 2026. Entry 48, shops and commercial establishments, is published here: three grades across three zones, monthly rates only. The notification states no daily rate, does not list which areas fall in each zone, and notes that the skilled grade includes highly skilled.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Minimum wages · Maharashtra.
- Allowance
- The special allowance for this employment is 4,134 a month, and the notification states that the allowance shown against an employment is the same for every zone.
- Daily.Basis
- The notification states monthly rates only for this employment. It publishes no daily rate, and no method for converting the monthly rate to a daily one.
- Employment
- These rates are for entry 48 of the schedule, दुकाने व व्यापारी आस्थापना उद्योग (shops and commercial establishments). The notification covers 67 scheduled employments in all; only this one is published here.
- Grades
- Three grades: skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled. The notification's closing note states that the skilled grade includes the highly skilled grade, except for salt-pan work at entry 65.
- Period
- These rates are declared for the period 1 July 2026 to 31 December 2026. Maharashtra revises the special allowance every six months.
- Semi.Month
- 14394
- Semi.Month
- 14990
- Semi.Month
- 13798
- Semi.Month · 3
- 13798
- Semi.Month · 1
- 14990
- Semi.Month · 2
- 14394
- Skilled.Month · 1
- 15766
- Skilled.Month
- 15170
- Skilled.Month
- 14574
- Skilled.Month
- 15766
- Skilled.Month · 2
- 15170
- Skilled.Month · 3
- 14574
- Structure
- Each rate is a basic rate (किमान मूळ वेतन दर) plus a special allowance (विशेष भत्त्याची रक्कम), which together are the total minimum wage, stated per month.
- Unskilled.Month · 3
- 12962
- Unskilled.Month · 2
- 13559
- Unskilled.Month · 1
- 14155
- Unskilled.Month
- 13559
- Unskilled.Month
- 14155
- Unskilled.Month
- 12962
- Zones.Definition
- Rates are set for Zone-I, Zone-II and Zone-III. This notification does not list which areas fall in each zone.