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).
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