Minimum wages
State, zone, skill — shops vs industrial.
One statewide rate for each grade; the notification sets no zones.
Per day, in force from 17 October 2022. These rates come from S.O. 513, a notification of 12 October 2022 issued by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Labour and Employment Department, Civil Secretariat, Jammu/Srinagar under sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (Act No. XI of 1948), after consulting the Advisory Board constituted under the Act vide Government order no. 957-JK (GAD) of 2022 dated 18.08.2022. The draft was S.O. 315 of 2022 dated 27.06.2022, published in the Government Gazette inviting objections within two months; 20 objections, suggestions and comments were received within the stipulated period and placed before the Board, whose recommendations the Government took into consideration. The notification comes into force from 17 October 2022, five days after it was signed.
| Skill | Statewide |
|---|---|
| unskilled | ₹311.00 / day |
| Semi-skilled | ₹400.00 / day |
| skilled | ₹483.00 / day |
| Highly skilled | ₹552.00 / day |
The same notification also says
- The schedule at Annexure-A runs to 45 scheduled employments in Part-I, with agriculture alone in Part-II.
- The above definitions are only illustrative and not exhaustive. The classification of Employments are illustrated at Annexure B. The above classification is only of illustrative nature and is not exhaustive.
- The departmental copy. Its distribution list directs the General Manager, Government Press to publish the notification in the Government Gazette, so a gazette version is a separate document this desk does not hold — which is why these pages read at act tier rather than gazette tier.
- The serial “513” in the S.O. number and the day “12” in the date line are written by hand on an otherwise printed form, and the countersignature is dated 12.10.22 by hand on every page. Shown as printed.
- Within the unskilled construction list, “Trolly Man” is printed twice, at Sl. Nos. 41 and 45. Recorded as printed; nothing is inferred from it.
- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh share a schedule structure — forty-five scheduled employments in Part-I with agriculture alone in Part-II, and a separate administrative and ministerial category outside the four skill grades — because both descend from the same pre-2019 schedule. This desk records the shared structure as an observation about how the schedules descend from a common ancestor, and takes no figure from one jurisdiction to the other. Ladakh's administrative staff rate is its own, and so is this one.
Administrative, ministerial and accounts staff
The notification fixes a fifth category alongside the four skill grades. It is not a skill grade: at ₹449 a day it sits between semi-skilled and skilled work. Annexure-B classifies it as “Administrative/Ministerial/Accounts Staff”, with 15 entries.
| Category | Rate |
|---|---|
| Administrative/Ministerial₹449 a day | —₹449.00 / day |
Jammu and Kashmir's own rules · researched
The table above is from the state's own published minimum wage notification. Everything below is Jammu and Kashmir-specific, researched and not yet checked against an official source.
Jammu and Kashmir's published minimum wage rates date from October 2022. Whether anything newer exists could not be established, because no Jammu and Kashmir government website could be reached.
Not yet verified against an official sourceThe rates, per day, in force from 17 October 2022
- Unskilled
- ₹311 a dayUnskilled Work means work which involves simple operations requiring little or no skill or experience on the job.S.O. 513
- Semi-skilled
- ₹400 a daySemi-skilled means work which involves skill or competence acquired through experience on the job.S.O. 513
- Skilled
- ₹483 a daySkilled Work means work which involves skill or competence acquired through experience on the job (for more time as compared to semi-skilled in similar nature of work) or through training as an apprentice in a technical or vocational institute and the performance of which calls for initiative and judgment.S.O. 513
- Highly Skilled
- ₹552 a dayHighly Skilled Work means work which calls for a degree of perfection and full competence in the performance of certain tasks including clerical work acquired through intensive technical or professional training or practical work experience for certain reasonable period and requires of worker to assume full responsibility for the judgment or decision involved in the execution of the tasks.S.O. 513
- Administrative/Ministerial
- ₹449 a dayA fifth category rather than a rung on the skill ladder: it is fixed between semi-skilled and skilled work. Annexure-B classifies it as “Administrative/Ministerial/Accounts Staff” with 15 entries, ending in “any other categories by whatever name called which are of a Administrative /Ministerial / Accounts/Clerical nature”.S.O. 513
- A monthly rate
- Not yet addedThe notification fixes rates by the day and gives no monthly figure and no rule for working one out, so none is shown.
- How firm the classification is
- Illustrative and not exhaustiveThe above definitions are only illustrative and not exhaustive. The classification of Employments are illustrated at Annexure B. The above classification is only of illustrative nature and is not exhaustive.Annexure-B to S.O. 513
Whether these rates still hold
- Confirmed current?
- Could not be checkedTwo different failures, not one: the State portal is published in DNS and refuses the connection, while the Labour Department's own hostname has stopped resolving altogether. Both were tried by direct request and again in a real browser. For every other jurisdiction on this desk it has been possible at least to establish that nothing newer was published. For Jammu and Kashmir it was not, and that is a weaker position, stated as such.Checked 28/09/2026
- jk.gov.in
- Not yet addedJk.gov.in resolves in DNS to 164.100.223.4 but refuses a connection on port 443 — the host is published and does not answer.
- jklabouremp.nic.in
- Not yet addedJklabouremp.nic.in does not resolve in DNS at all — the hostname no longer exists.
The 45 scheduled employments, and what they share with Ladakh
- Part-I
- 45 employmentsFrom woollen carpet making and shawl weaving, rice and oil mills, plantations and local authority work through embroidery, wood carving, walnut processing and sports goods to private educational institutions, coaching centres, brick kilns, cement, plastic and hotels, restaurants, tea stalls and cinemas.Annexure-A to S.O. 513
- Part-II
- Agriculture aloneAnnexure-A to S.O. 513
- The same structure as Ladakh's schedule
- A shared ancestor, not a shared figureBoth schedules run to forty-five scheduled employments in Part-I with agriculture alone in Part-II, and a separate administrative and ministerial category outside the four skill grades. That is what a common pre-2019 schedule looks like after a territory is divided. This desk records the shared structure as an observation about how the schedules descend from a common ancestor, and takes no figure from one jurisdiction to the other. Ladakh's administrative staff rate is its own, and so is this one.
What is on the face of the document
- Which copy this is
- The departmental copy, not the gazetteThe departmental copy. Its distribution list directs the General Manager, Government Press to publish the notification in the Government Gazette, so a gazette version is a separate document this desk does not hold — which is why these pages read at act tier rather than gazette tier.No. LE-Genl/56/2022-11-L&E
- Handwriting on a printed form
- The S.O. serial and the dayThe serial “513” in the S.O. number and the day “12” in the date line are written by hand on an otherwise printed form, and the countersignature is dated 12.10.22 by hand on every page. Shown as printed.S.O. 513
- A category printed twice
- “Trolly Man” at Sl. Nos. 41 and 45Within the unskilled construction list, “Trolly Man” is printed twice, at Sl. Nos. 41 and 45. Recorded as printed; nothing is inferred from it.Annexure-B to S.O. 513
- Signed by
- Sarita Chauhan, IAS, Commissioner/Secretary to GovernmentCountersigned by Nisar Ahmed Shad, JKAS, Deputy Secretary to Government.No. LE-Genl/56/2022-11-L&E
- When it takes effect
- From 17 October 2022Signed on 12 October and expressed to come into force from the 17th. The two dates are consistent, not in conflict.S.O. 513