General Minimum Wage 2019

We inform you that the National Minimum Wage Commission, for its acronym in Spanish (CONASAMI), agreed to increase the general minimum wage by $ 9.43 in Independent Recovery Amount, for its acronym in Spanish (MIR), as well as 5% of the general minimum wage and minimum professional wages. Likewise, the Free Zone of the Northern Border, for its acronym in Spanish (ZLFN), was created in which the general minimum wage was increased by $ 79.94 in MIR and an additional 5%. Therefore, as of January 1st, 2019, entered into force the new general minimum wage which will be $102.68 and $176.72 for the ZLFN.

As already it has been establishing in previous years it was determined that the increase that represents a 16.21% shall not be the basis for contractual salary reviews, since the MIR is intended to only recover the purchasing power of wages, so it should be 5% what may be taken as a reference to this, with the freedom to agree on an increase that is downward or upward from that percentage and according to the economic capacity of the employer.

The ZLFN will be made up of the following municipalities: Ensenada, Playas de Rosarito, Mexicali, Tecate and Tijuana, in the State of Baja California; San Luis Río Colorado, Puerto Peñasco, General Plutarco Elías Calles, Caborca, Altar, Sáric, Nogales, Santa Cruz, Cananea, Naco and Agua Prieta, in the State of Sonora; Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Práxedis G. Guerrero, Guadalupe, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga and Manuel Benavides, in the State of Chihuahua; Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, Guerrero and Hidalgo, in the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza; Anáhuac, in the State of Nuevo León; and Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso and Matamoros, in the State of Tamaulipas.

We enclose for your knowledge the table of minimum wages effective as of January 1st, 2019.