Overview
- Conasami has convened government, labor and employer representatives for a key meeting on December 3 to seek consensus on the 2026 minimum wage, with the approved figure to be decreed in the DOF and effective January 1.
- Labor representatives are pressing for a 30.6% increase to 362.34 pesos per day and for eliminating the Monto Independiente de Recuperación so the full adjustment is proportional.
- Government and business projections center on an 11%–12% rise, which would put the general daily wage near 309.5–312.2 pesos and the Zona Libre de la Frontera Norte around 466.1–470.2 pesos.
- A Senate initiative has floated a roughly 17% adjustment tied to two basic baskets, but it remains a proposal and would still require legislative approval.
- Economists caution that mandated hikes outpacing productivity could pressure small firms, formal hiring and services inflation, even as the administration pursues a path toward a wage worth 2.5 basic baskets by 2030.