Ecuador minimum wage
Salario Básico Unificado del trabajador en general — national monthly minimum wage in US dollars, set each December by acuerdo ministerial of the Ministerio del Trabajo (after tripartite review in the Consejo Nacional de Trabajo y Salarios) for the following calendar year.
| Current value | 482 USD/month |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| Official source | Ministerio del Trabajo — Acuerdo Ministerial Nro. MDT-2025-195 (15 Dec 2025; RO Suplemento 187, 18 Dec 2025): SBU 2026 = USD 482 |
| Last verified | 2026-07-16 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
USD 482.00/month for the trabajador en general effective 1 January 2026, a USD 12 (~2.55%) increase over the 2025 SBU of USD 470. Fixed by Acuerdo Ministerial MDT-2025-195, signed 15 December 2025 and published in the Suplemento del Registro Oficial No. 187 of 18 December 2025. Unusually, this was a tripartite CONSENSUS (government, employers and workers in the Consejo Nacional de Trabajo y Salarios) — the first agreed (non-imposed) SBU in almost a decade. The SBU also applies to workers of small industry, agricultural workers, maquila workers, remunerated domestic workers, artisan operators and microenterprise collaborators; separate higher 'salarios mínimos sectoriales' per industry are fixed by a companion acuerdo. The SBU is the base for many statutory amounts (e.g. fines, social-security floors). Next revision expected December 2026, effective 1 Jan 2027. Note: trabajo.gob.ec refuses connections from some foreign networks; figures cross-verified against the Registro Oficial suplemento text (RO Suplemento 187, 18-XII-2025) as republished by Ecuadorian law firms.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | 460 | Ministerio del Trabajo — SBU 2024 = USD 460 (base referenced |
| 2025-01-01 | 470 | Ministerio del Trabajo — Acuerdo Ministerial Nro. MDT-2024-3 |
Get it programmatically
curl https://latamref.dev/v1/ec/minimum-wage
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
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