Minimum Wage in West Bengal w.e.f January 1, 2017 to June 30, 2017
| Name of the Scheduled Employments< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> | Area | Category of worker- skill wise | |||
| Unskilled | Semi-skilled | Skilled | Highly Skilled | ||
| Total Minimum Wages per month (In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per month(In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per month(In Rs) | Total Minimum Wages per month(In Rs) | ||
| Agriculture | WB | 5869.00(226.00) (without food) | 6457.00 (248.00) (without food) | 7104.00 (273.00) (without food) | - |
| 210.00 (per day) (with food) | 232.00 (per day) with food) | 257.00 (per day)with food) |
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| Bakery | ZONE A | 7546.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 |
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| Beedi Leaf Plucking | WB | 5347.00 (206.00) | 5882 (226.23) | 6471 (248.88) |
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| Bell Metal and Brass Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Bone Meal Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 |
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| Brick manufacturing | < xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> | 5869.00 (without accomodation | 6457.00 (without accomodation | 7104.00(without accomodation |
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| 5577.00 (with accomodation) | 6135.00 (with accomodation) | 6747.00 (with accomodation) |
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| Ceramic Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Chakki Mills | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Cinchona Plantation | WB | 5879.00 |
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| Chartered Accountants, Auditors etc Firms | Calcutta | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| Cigarette Manufacturing | RATES ARE GOVERNED BY AGREEMENTS | ||||
| Cinema Industry (cinema house exhibition) | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | 8876.00 | |
| Cinema Industry (production side) | WB |
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| Cinema Industry (distribution side) | WB |
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| Cold Storage | Minimum rates of wages are not yet fixed. | ||||
| Clinical Nursing Home | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | 8876.00 | |
| Construction & Maintenance of Road or building operation | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | 8876.00 | |
| Dal Mills | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 |
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| Decoration | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 |
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| Fishery | WB | 5869.00 |
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| Flour Mills | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | 8876.00 | |
| Forestry or Timber Operation | WB | 5869.00 |
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| Fountain Pen and Ball Point Pen Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 |
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| Glass Industry | WB | 6164.00 | 6184.00 | 6234.00 | 6289.00 |
| Godown(WB) | ZONE A | 7546.00 | - | - | - |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 |
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| Handloom | WB | 5869.00 | - | - | - |
| Hosiery Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Hotel and Restaurant | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | 8876.00 | |
| Iron Fuondary | Kolkata High Court in W.P. No.731 of 2012 & GA 221 of 2013 has passed an interim order of restraint on giving effect to Notification No.106-MW/2W-21/2010 dt 04.04.2012 revising Minimum Wages in Iron Foundry | ||||
| Lac Manufactures | WB | 5869.00 | 6457.00 | 7104.00 |
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| Medicinal Plant other than Cinchona | WB | 5869.00 |
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| Oil Mills | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | | |
| Paints & Chemicals Factories | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | 10044.00 |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | 8876.00 | |
| Paper Board & straw Board Mfg. Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Plastic Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Plywood Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Power Loom (Less than 10 person) | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Power Loom (10 or more person) | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Printing Press | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 |
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| Public Motor Transport | WB | 7379.00(Cleaner & Lorry Coolies) | 7432.00(Conductor) | 7440.00 (Fitters and Time Keepers) | 7511.00 (Drivers and Mechanics) |
| Refractory Industry | WB | 6382.00 | 6342.00 | 6402.00 | 6462.00 |
| Rice Mills | WB | 5869.00 | 6457.00 | 7104.00 | 7815.00 |
| Rope Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Rubber & Rubber Products | Calcutta | 5864.00 | 5875.00 | 5901.00 |
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| Howrah & hoogly | 5179.00 | 5190.00 | 5216.00 |
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| Burdwan | 5826.00 | 5837.00 | 5863.00 |
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| Darjeeling, except Siliguri | 4369.00 | 4380.00 | 4406.00 |
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| Jalpaigur, Coochbe | 4303.00 | 4314.00 | 4340.00 |
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| Bankura, Midnapo re & Purulia | 5144.00 | 5155.00 | 5181.00 |
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| Birbhum | 5134.00 | 5145.00 | 5171.00 |
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| Nadia & Murshida bad | 5019.00 | 5030.00 | 5056.00 |
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| Malda, Uttar Dinajpur & Dakshin Dinajpur | 4930.00 | 4941.00 | 4967.00 |
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| Salt Manufacturing Industry | WB | 5869.00 | 6457.00 | 7104.00 | 7815.00 |
| Saw Mills | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Sericulture Nursery & Cultivation (B) Silk Spinning And/Or Weaving ( Hand Loom) | WB | 5869.00 |
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| Security services | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Shoes Making Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Silk Mills | ZONE A | 7546.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 |
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| Silk Printing | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Stone Breaking and Stone crushing | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Sweeping and cleaning excluding activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Tailoring Industry | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 |
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| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 | - | |
| Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | ZONE A | 7546.00 | 8301.00 | 9132.00 | - |
| ZONE B | 6669.00 | 7335.00 | 8068.00 |
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| Tea Plantation | RATES ARE NOW GOVERNED BY AGREEMENT | ||||
| Tobacco (Beedi Making) | Calcutta | 236.99 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | 235.89 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | 6133.14 |
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| How. Hoog | 206.97 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | 206.02 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | 5356.52 |
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| Other District | 197.57 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | 196.62 (Per 1000 Beedi Rolled). | 5112.12 |
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| Tobacco Gowdown | WB | 5869.00 |
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Note:
Area CAL: Indicates rates prescribed for Kolkata, North 24 Pgs & South 24 Pgs only; rates are different in other Districts of WB.
Area CH:Indicates rates prescribed for Kolkata and Howrah Municipal Corporation.
Area WB: Indicates rates prescribed for WHOLE OF WEST BENGAL
For other employments Area under: Zone A: (i) Areas Notified under Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), (ii) Asansol Municipal Corporation, (iii) Durgapur Municipal Corporation, (iv) Siliguri Municipal Corporation,(v) Digha-Shankarpur Development Authority, (vi) Thermal Power Plant areas including Township areas, (vii) All the Municipal areas in different districts (viii) All the Sub-Divisions in the districts of Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan and 24- Parganas (N) [excluding Barasat and Basirhat], (ix) Alipore Sub-Division and Baruipur Sub-Division in the district of 24- Parganas (S), (x) Midnapore Sadar Sub-Division and Kharagpur Sub-Divisionin the district of West Midnapur, (xi) Siliguri Sub-Division in the district of Darjeeling,(xii) Bankura Sub-Division and Bishnupur Sub-Division in the district of Bankura, and (xiii) Raghunathpur Sub-Division in the district of Purulia; Zone A: Rest of West Bengal.
To arrive at daily rate, monthly rate will have to be divided by 26 and to be rounded off to the nearest rupee, to arrive at weekly rate; daily rate will have to be multiplied by 6;
A normal working day shall consist of eight and half hours of work including interval for half-an-hour for rest;
The employment of 'Bakery' includes ' Biscuit manufacturing units' also as per clarification issued by the Labour Depatment, Govt. of W. B.
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