Minimum wages
State, zone, skill — shops vs industrial.
One statewide rate for each grade; the notification sets no zones.
Daily rates for 1 July to 31 December 2026. This order covers 1 July to 31 December 2026. The territory revises every six months and has issued each recent revision before the period it governs — 5 December 2025 for 1 January 2026, and 29 June 2026 for 1 July 2026 — so a reader standing near the end of December should expect the next order to be out already rather than to arrive late. That is the department's own record, from the orders it publishes.
These rates apply from 1 July 2026 to 31 December 2026.
| Skill | Statewide |
|---|---|
| unskilled | ₹660.00 / day |
| Semi-skilled | ₹741.00 / day |
| skilled | ₹864.00 / day |
| Highly skilled | ₹947.00 / day |
The same notification also says
- The order publishes a daily rate only. It sets no monthly figure and gives no rule for working one out, so none is shown.
- There are no zones. The rates run across the whole Union territory.
- The rates rest on the average All India Consumer Price Index for October 2025 to March 2026.
- The order's own category names are wider than the four grade labels used here, and the mapping matters: “Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory” is the semi-skilled row, so unskilled supervisory staff take it; “Skilled/Clerical” is the skilled row, so clerical staff take that one.
- Every grade rose by ₹8 a day against the order of 5 December 2025, which set ₹652, ₹733, ₹856 and ₹939.
- This is the first order on the desk made under the Code on Wages, 2019 — section 7 read with section 2(w). The order recites that the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 was subsumed into the Code with effect from 21 November 2025.
- It declares the rates “across all Employments of the Union Territory of A & N Islands, in addition to Govt. Departments/ Offices/ Industrial Establishments”. Its predecessor of 5 December 2025 said “across Six Schedules of Employments”, so coverage widened with the move to the Code — which is why this page carries no caveat about whether shops are reached.
- The order's typed date reads 29th July 2026 with July struck through and June written in by hand. The digital signature on its second page — 29-06-2026 — settles it as 29 June 2026.
- The terms and conditions of Notification No. 133/2023/F of 27.12.2023 continue to apply. That notification is not on the department's site and could not be obtained.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands's own rules · researched
The table above is from the state's own published minimum wage notification. Everything below is Andaman and Nicobar Islands-specific, researched and not yet checked against an official source.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands set one daily rate for the whole territory and revise it every six months — and, unusually, issue each revision before the period it governs.
Not yet verified against an official source- What the order is
- The Lt. Governor (Administrator)'s declaration of minimum rates of wages with effect from 1 July 2026, made by the Office of the Labour CommissionerOrder No. 229, F.No. A-196/1/2022-Lab.Ins-I-LAB_AN, Sri Vijaya Puram, digitally signed 29 June 2026
- Who declares it, and under what power
- The Lt. Governor (Administrator) of the Union territory — not the Central Government and not the Chief Labour Commissioner — exercising power the Ministry of Labour, Government of India delegated by Notification No. LP 24(1) of 16 March 1949The same order
- The law it is made under
- Section 7 of the Code on Wages, 2019 read with section 2(w). The order recites that on the Code's implementation with effect from 21 November 2025 the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 was subsumed into it, so the revision is declared under the CodeThe same order
- What it covers
- All employments of the Union territory, in addition to Government departments, offices and industrial establishments. The preceding order of 5 December 2025 covered the six schedules of employment instead, so coverage widened with the move to the CodeOrder No. 229 read against Order No. 413 of 05.12.2025
- What the rates rest on
- The average All India Consumer Price Index for the period October 2025 to March 2026The same order
- The rise this period
- ₹8 a day in every grade — from ₹652, ₹733, ₹856 and ₹939 to ₹660, ₹741, ₹864 and ₹947Order No. 229 read against Order No. 413 of 05.12.2025
- What the four categories are called
- Unskilled; Semi-Skilled/Unskilled Supervisory; Skilled/Clerical; Highly Skilled. The order's names are wider than the grade labels used here — an unskilled supervisory worker takes the semi-skilled rate, and a clerical worker takes the skilled rateOrder No. 229
- A monthly rate
- Not yet addedThe order publishes a daily rate only and gives no rule for working a month out of it, so none is shown.
- The date on the order
- 29 June 2026. The typed date reads “29th July 2026” with July struck through and June written in by hand; the digital signature on the second page, 29-06-2026, settles itThe same order, pages 1 and 2
- Terms carried over
- Not yet addedBoth orders say the other terms and conditions of Notification No. 133/2023/F of 27.12.2023 remain unchanged. That notification is not on the department's site, and the territory's gazette portal carries no Labour entries after about 2014, so it could not be obtained.