Overview

• INEGI’s ENIGH 2025 reports a general recovery of wages during the years of minimum‑wage increases.
• Mexico City convened experts in 2014 and produced a collective proposal, with CEPAL and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation participating, to shift opinion toward raising the wage floor.
• Congress approved the UMA reform in December 2015 to detach the minimum wage from administrative prices and penalties, clearing a key technical obstacle to sustained hikes.
• The capital piloted a Unit of Account, tax incentives and procurement conditions that favored firms paying above a set threshold, a high‑profile test not followed by an inflationary spiral.
• Institutional debate continues as Banxico had opposed higher minimums during the discussions, while officials now credit the policy with reductions in income poverty.