Statutory Minimum Wage

Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) has come into force since 1 May 2011.

SMW rate is raised to $42.1 per hour with effect from 1 May 2025.  The monthly monetary cap on the requirement for employers to record the total number of hours worked by employees is also raised to $17,200 per month in tandem with the new SMW rate that takes effect on the same day. For details, please click here.

On the other hand, the Chief Executive in Council accepted the recommendations of the Minimum Wage Commission on enhancing the review mechanism of SMW on 30 April 2024, including adopting the formula for reviewing the SMW rate once a year and reviewing the aforesaid new annual review mechanism five to ten years after its implementation. The next SMW rate is expected to take effect on 1 May 2026.

Guidelines on Statutory Minimum Wage

• Statutory Minimum Wage: latest revision
  • Chinese (660KB) (PDF) 
  • English (660KB) (PDF) 
  • Bahasa Indonesia (1.11MB) (PDF) 
  • Tagalog (1.2MB) (PDF) 
  • Thai ภาษาไทย (1.58MB) (PDF) 
  • Hindi हिंदी (1.05MB) (PDF) 
  • Nepali नेपाली (1.07MB) (PDF) 
  • Urdu اردو  (1.15MB) (PDF) 
  • Sinhala සිංහල (1.38MB) (PDF) 
  • Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ  (1.12MB) (PDF) 
  • Vietnamese Tiếng Việt (1.02MB) (PDF) 

• Concise Guide to Statutory Minimum Wage
  • Chinese (784KB) (PDF) 
  • English (496KB) (PDF) 

• Statutory Minimum Wage : Reference Guidelines for Employers and Employees
  • Chinese (2.37MB) (PDF) 
  • English (2.17MB) (PDF) 

• Statutory Minimum Wage : Industry-specific Reference Guidelines
  • Real Estate Agency (228KB) (PDF) 
  • Logistics (228KB) (PDF) 
  • Property Management, Security Services and Cleaning Services (232KB) (PDF) 
  • Hotel and Tourism (248KB) (PDF) 
  • Catering (232KB) (PDF) 
  • Retail (224KB) (PDF) 

Note: For guidelines on the last Statutory Minimum Wage rate of $40 per hour, please click here.

Student interns and work experience students during a period of exempt student employment:

(For exemption details, please click here)

• Statutory Minimum Wage : Notes for Student Employees and Employers (1.12MB) (PDF)
• Leaflet on Exemption for specified student interns and work experience students (902KB) (PDF) 
• Specimen Content of statutory declaration made by a work experience student for a period of exempt student employment (221KB) (PDF)

(To make use of the following two forms, it is recommended to download the relevant PDF form, assess and input data with the latest version of Acrobat Reader. The fillable PDF form may encounter operation problems using browsers.)

• Specimen Confirmation of "student intern" status (Fillable PDF Form) (390KB) (PDF)
• Specimen Confirmation of student status for "work experience student" (Fillable PDF Form) (417KB) (PDF)

Employees with disabilities:

• Concise Guide to Productivity Assessment for Employees with Disabilities under the Statutory Minimum Wage Regime
  • Chinese (3.4 MB) (PDF)
  • English (1.83 MB) (PDF)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (878 KB) (PDF)
  • Tagalog (749 KB) (PDF)
  • Thai ภาษาไทย (1.9 MB) (PDF)
  • Hindi हिंदी (1.04 MB) (PDF)
  • Nepali नेपाली (995 KB) (PDF)
  • Urdu اردو  (988 KB) (PDF)
  • Sinhala සිංහල (902 KB) (PDF)
• Support Kits on Productivity Assessment for Employees with Disabilities under the Statutory Minimum Wage Regime
  • Support Kit for Employees with Disabilities
  • Support Kit for Employers
• Revision of Statutory Minimum Wage Rate: Notes for Employees with Disabilities and Employers (225 KB) (PDF) 

• Article titled "Statutory Minimum Wage-Rights of Employees with Disabilities and Productivity Assessment" (136 KB) (PDF)