Minimum wages

The same notification also says

• The rates are per day. Note (a) of the notification makes a month the daily rate multiplied by twenty-six, so the monthly figure is the notification's own computation and not a derivation.
• For DOMESTIC employments only, the notification fixes an hourly rate: the notified daily rate divided by eight. No other state on this desk sets an hour this way.
• There are no zones. One set of rates runs across the 89 scheduled employments of Schedule-1(b).
• Note (b): the rates include the remuneration payable for the day of rest in a period of seven days.
• Note (c): for overtime on the weekly rest day or on any other day, a worker is paid twice the wages at the rate prescribed in rule 25 of the Bihar Minimum Wages Rules, 1951.
• Note (d): male and female workers receive the same rate for the same work or similar type of work.
• If the index falls below the point at which the rates were determined, the notification says no change is made to them — the allowance does not go backwards.
• Schedule-II's heading is dated 1 October 2025 while its own final column is headed 1 April 2026 and its third column is the cumulation to 1 October 2025. The operative date is 1 April 2026; the heading was carried over from the previous notification.
• This notification is a revision. The rates it builds on were fixed by notification (58,59) of 23 September 2025, published in Bihar Gazette 1560 of 24 September 2025, which is not held here — only the order that carries its figures forward.
• The 89 scheduled employments are referred to and never listed. Unlike Odisha, which prints all ninety-one of its own, Bihar's list is not in this document and is not reproduced here.
• Schedule-III is a second and much larger regime of piece rates for twelve employments, charged against output rather than time. It is published in full on its own page.