The National Minimum Wage (NMW) for each “ordinary hour worked” has been increased from 1 March 2025 by 4.4% from R27,58 per hour to R28,79 per hour.
Domestic workers: Assuming a work month of 22 days x 8 hours per day, R28,79 per hour equates to R230,32 per day or R5067,04 per month. Of course, this is just a bare legal minimum: the Living Wage calculator will help you check whether you are actually paying your domestic worker enough to cover a household’s “minimal need” (adjust the “Assumptions” in the calculator to ensure that the figures used are up-to-date).
NOTE FOR ATTORNEYS: Read “Minister Nomakhosazana Meth adjusts national minimum wage to R28,79 per hour” on the South African Government website for more. Government Notice No. R. 5830 dated 31 January 2025 is downloadable from the Government website.
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