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Minimum wages in Haryana are notified by the Labour Department, Government of Haryana. The current rates come from Notification No. 2/25/26-2 Lab dated 9 April 2026, issued under the Code on Wages, 2019. It replaces the October 2015 notification and applies one uniform rate across the entire state with no zone classification.
The short answer The current minimum wages in Haryana, effective 01 April 2026, are ₹15,220.71 a month (₹585.41 per day) for unskilled work, ₹16,780.74 for semi-skilled, ₹18,500.81 for skilled and ₹19,425.85 a month (₹747.14 per day) for highly skilled. The notification carries eight legal notes that matter as much as the figures – chief among them that the wage cannot be split into allowances and must be paid as a whole, which has a direct and expensive consequence for provident fund liability.
Haryana notifies a consolidated monthly figure per category. Divide by 26 for the daily wage and by 8 for the hourly rate – ₹15,220.71 a month gives ₹585.41 a day and ₹73.18 an hour for unskilled work. The notification sets a different divisor for deductions: where wages are deducted, the daily figure is the monthly divided by 30. Overtime is paid at double the standard rate, and wages are payable by the 7th of the following month for establishments below 1,000 employees.
The mistake to avoid: splitting the wage to reduce the provident fund base. Note 1 of the notification bars employers from splitting minimum wages into allowance components, and the EPF Act calculates provident fund on basic plus dearness allowance. Where the whole minimum wage must be paid as a consolidated amount, the PF base becomes the entire ₹15,220.71, not a reduced basic slice. An employer who splits it to shrink the PF base breaches the notification and the EPF Act at the same time.
Worked example – unskilled worker
Notified monthly rate = ₹15,220.71 (consolidated, no allowance split permitted)
Per day for payment = 15,220.71 ÷ 26 = ₹585.41
Per hour = 585.41 ÷ 8 = ₹73.18
Per day for deduction = 15,220.71 ÷ 30 = ₹507.36
PF base = the full ₹15,220.71, not a reduced basic – because the wage cannot be split
The April 2026 notification simplified Haryana’s structure. The previous schedule ran sub-categories within the semi-skilled and skilled bands – Semi-Skilled A and B, Skilled A and B – giving six tiers in all. The Code on Wages revision collapsed those into four clean categories. Employers carrying the old sub-category labels in their payroll masters need to re-map, because the A and B distinctions no longer exist.
The old sub-categories are gone
Semi-Skilled A and B and Skilled A and B no longer exist. Under the previous notification those sat at ₹11,819.94, ₹12,410.91, ₹13,031 and ₹13,683 respectively – a payroll master still carrying them is applying rates roughly ₹5,000 a month out of date.
Act on this: re-map every employee from the old six-tier structure to the new four. The April 2026 revision lifted unskilled work from ₹11,257.12 to ₹15,220.71 – an increase of ₹3,963.59 a month, or 35 per cent – so anyone still on a 2015-vintage rate is short by a large margin and has been since 01 April.
Minimum wages in Haryana apply to all establishments, factories, employees, workers and contract labour under the Code on Wages, 2019, and coverage does not depend on headcount. The notification is explicit that principal employers are responsible for ensuring their contractors also pay the minimum wage. It also requires equal wages for men and women, with no gender pay difference permitted for the same or similar work.
Paying below the notified rate exposes an employer to recovery of the shortfall for the whole affected period, compensation on top, and prosecution. Under the Code on Wages, 2019 a first offence attracts a fine of up to ₹50,000, and a repeat offence within five years can mean up to three months imprisonment and a fine of up to ₹1 lakh. Because a split wage structure also depresses the provident fund base, the EPF shortfall is recoverable separately with interest and damages.
Act on this: audit Gurugram and Faridabad payrolls first. Both sit in the NCR labour market alongside Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad, all on different schedules, and both carry a high density of contractor-supplied staff – the combination that produces the largest exposure when a rate goes stale.
Haryana historically fixed minimum wages under the Punjab Minimum Wages Rules, 1950, adopted at the state’s formation, with fixation referenced to the Wholesale Price Index rather than the Consumer Price Index that most states use. Notification No. 2/25/26-2 Lab dated 9 April 2026 moved the exercise onto the Code on Wages, 2019, superseding Notification No. 3/42/83-3 Lab of 21 October 2015. Rates are revised twice a year, with revisions effective from 01 January and 01 July.
Act on this: read the eight legal notes, not just the rate table. Getting the figure right and the application wrong is still a violation – the notes govern splitting, the deduction divisor, trainee pay, gender parity and contractor liability, and each of them can create an exposure independently of whether the headline number in your payroll is correct.
Revision history for minimum wages in Haryana. The April 2026 order is the first issued under the Code on Wages, 2019.
| Effective From | Notification | Unskilled / Month | Highly Skilled / Month | Framework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr 2026 | No. 2/25/26-2 Lab dated 09 Apr 2026 | ₹15,220.71 | ₹19,425.85 | Code on Wages, 2019, s.8(3) |
| 01 Jul 2025 | – | ₹11,274.60 | – | Minimum Wages Act, 1948 |
| 21 Oct 2015 | No. 3/42/83-3 Lab | – | – | Superseded by the April 2026 notification |
The April 2026 revision raised unskilled wages from ₹11,257.12 to ₹15,220.71 a month, an increase of about 35 per cent, and collapsed the previous six-tier structure with A and B sub-categories into four categories. Cross-verified against compliance-maintained datasets, July 2026. Always confirm against the official notification of the Labour Department, Government of Haryana before finalizing payroll.
Haryana is the first state in this comparison to notify under the Code on Wages, 2019 rather than the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, and the April 2026 revision moved it from among the lower floors in the north to a competitive position. It sits below Delhi but above Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh – which matters because all of them supply labour into the Gurugram and Faridabad belt.
Unskilled minimum wage per day, compared with other states. Comparison figures are to be filled from each state’s own notification.
| State / Benchmark | Unskilled / Day | Structure |
|---|---|---|
| Haryana | ₹585.41 | Consolidated ₹15,220.71 a month, no zones, no allowance split permitted |
| Delhi (NCT) | ₹709.85 | Basic ₹18,066 + VDA ₹390 a month, single uniform rate |
| Punjab | ₹518.69 | Consolidated ₹13,486 a month, eight categories |
| Uttar Pradesh | ₹435.14 | Basic ₹5,750 + VDA ₹5,563.65 a month, three skill bands |
| Rajasthan | ₹285 | Consolidated daily rate, in force since 01 Jan 2023 |
| National Floor Wage | – | Advisory floor, not directly enforceable on employers |
Act on this: if you staff a Gurugram or Faridabad site with workers who live in Delhi, Noida or Rajasthan, apply the Haryana rate – the jurisdiction follows the workplace, not the worker. The NCR is one labour market and four separate wage schedules, and Haryana sits in the middle of them.
The table below sets out the current minimum wages in Haryana, effective 01 April 2026 under Notification No. 2/25/26-2 Lab. One uniform rate applies across the state with no zone classification. Daily figures are the monthly rate divided by 26 and hourly figures the daily rate divided by 8. All four categories fall below the ₹21,000 ESIC threshold, so ESI contributions apply throughout.
| Category | Per Month | Per Day | Per Hour | Per Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unskilled | ₹15,220.71 | ₹585.41 | ₹73.18 | ₹1,82,648.52 |
| Semi-Skilled | ₹16,780.74 | ₹645.41 | ₹80.68 | ₹2,01,368.88 |
| Skilled | ₹18,500.81 | ₹711.56 | ₹88.95 | ₹2,22,009.72 |
| Highly-Skilled | ₹19,425.85 | ₹747.14 | ₹93.39 | ₹2,33,110.20 |
Source: Labour Department, Government of Haryana – Notification No. 2/25/26-2 Lab dated 9 April 2026, issued under sub-section (3) of section 8 of the Code on Wages, 2019, effective 01 April 2026, superseding Notification No. 3/42/83-3 Lab dated 21 October 2015. Wages must be paid as a whole and may not be split into allowance components. Cross-verified against compliance-maintained datasets, July 2026. Always confirm against the official notification of the Labour Department, Government of Haryana before finalizing payroll.
No. Haryana applies one uniform rate across the entire state with no zone classification – unusual for a state with the industrial density of the NCR belt, and it simplifies compliance considerably.
Two divisors in one notification
Monthly divided by 26 gives the daily wage for payment; monthly divided by 30 gives the figure for deductions. Using the pay divisor for a deduction over-deducts by ₹78.05 a day for an unskilled worker.
Because Haryana has no wage zones, the current minimum wages in Haryana are identical everywhere in the state. An unskilled worker earns ₹15,220.71 a month or ₹585.41 a day whether the workplace is a corporate office in Gurugram, a manufacturing unit in Faridabad, a textile mill in Panipat, an auto plant in Manesar or a site in a rural block. The complication is at the state line rather than inside it: a warehouse in Ghaziabad applies Uttar Pradesh rates and an office in central Delhi applies Delhi rates, both materially different, even though staff commute between all three in the same week.
Effective 01 April 2026, minimum wages Haryana are ₹15,220.71 a month or ₹585.41 a day for unskilled work, ₹16,780.74 for semi-skilled, ₹18,500.81 for skilled and ₹19,425.85 a month or ₹747.14 a day for highly skilled. The governing order is Notification No. 2/25/26-2 Lab dated 9 April 2026.
No. Note 1 of the notification bars splitting the minimum wage into allowance components — it must be paid as a whole. This has a direct provident fund consequence: because the entire amount is the wage, the PF calculation base is the full ₹15,220.71 rather than a reduced basic. Splitting to shrink the PF base breaches both the notification and the EPF Act.
No. Haryana applies one uniform rate across the whole state with no zone classification, so Gurugram, Faridabad, Panipat, Hisar and every rural block read the same figures. What changes the rate is the skill category alone.
The notification provides that trainees are paid 75 per cent of the applicable category wage but never less than the unskilled rate, with the training period capped at one year. In practice the floor always binds — 75 per cent of even the highly skilled rate is ₹14,569.39, below the unskilled figure of ₹15,220.71 — so every trainee in Haryana receives at least ₹15,220.71 a month regardless of category.
Divide the monthly figure by 26 for the daily wage and by 8 for the hourly rate. But deductions use a different divisor — monthly divided by 30. For an unskilled worker that is ₹585.41 for payment against ₹507.36 for deduction, so applying the pay divisor to a deduction over-deducts by ₹78.05 a day.
The Code on Wages, 2019. The April 2026 notification was issued under sub-section (3) of section 8 of the Code, making it Haryana’s first revision under the new framework rather than the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. It replaced a notification that had stood since October 2015 and raised unskilled wages by about 35 per cent.
Alpesh Vaghasiya (CEO)
Alpesh Vaghasiya is the Co-founder and CEO of Superworks, a smart business management solution that Indian SMBs and large enterprises use to run attendance, payroll, and statutory compliance from a single system. He has spent over 15 years building software out of Surat, founding Artoon Solutions, now a 350+ person product engineering firm serving clients across 30+ countries, in 2009, before launching Superworks in 2020.
His writing comes from the operator's side of compliance - what actually breaks when payroll has to absorb a minimum wage revision, reconcile attendance across multiple sites, or file returns under different state rules in the same month. A Charter Member of TiE Surat and an active angel investor in early-stage Indian startups, he holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University.
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