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Minimum Wage in West Bengal

w.e.f July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018
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Scheduled Employments

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 6338(244.00) (without food) 6972.00 (268.00)  (without food) 7671.00 (295.00) (without food)
Agriculture WB  227.00 (per day) (with food)  251.00 (per day) with food) 278.00 (per day)with food)
Automobile Engineering Repairing Workshop & Garages ZONE A 7775 8554 9409 10349
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Bakery ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
Beedi Leaf Plucking WB 6338 6972 7671
Bell Metal and Brass Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Bone Meal Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
 Beverage Manufacturing and Vending Establishments ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Biscuit Manufacturing ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Bottling and Packaging Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10349
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Brick manufacturing Calcutta 6338 (without accomodation 6972 (without accomodation 7671(without accomodation
6022 (with accomodation) 6625 (with accomodation) 7286 (with accomodation)
Ceramic Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Chakki Mills ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Cinchona Plantation WB 6338
Chartered Accountants, Auditors etc Firms Calcutta 7776 8553 9409 10350
Cigarette Manufacturing RATES ARE GOVERNED BY AGREEMENTS
Cinema Industry (cinema house exhibition) ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Cinema Industry (production side) WB
Cinema Industry (distribution side) WB
Cold Storage Minimum rates of wages are not yet fixed.
Clinical Establishments Including Pathological Laboratories and Diagnostic ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
Centres ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Clinical Nursing Home ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Construction & Maintenance of Road  or building operation ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Confectionery and Sweets Manufacturing ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
 Consumer Co-operative Societies, Primary Agricultural Co-operative Societies / ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
Marketing Societies ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Courier Service ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Dal Mills ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Decoration ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Fishery WB 6338
Fishing Activities including River & Deep Sea Fishing WB 7202
Flour Mills ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
 Floor and Wall Tiles Manufacturing i ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Forestry or Timber Operation WB 6338
Fountain Pen and Ball Point Pen Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Glass Industry WB 6164 6184 6234 6289
Garments Manufacturing Industry ZONE A 7775 8554 9409 10349
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Godown(WB) ZONE A 7775
ZONE B 7202
Handloom WB 6338
Hosiery Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Hotel and Restaurant ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Hotels and Restaurants including Boarding Houses, Eating Houses, Canteens, ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
Clubs and Guest Houses ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Ice Cream and Candy Manufacturing ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
Ice Factory ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Information Technology Industry ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
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
Jewellery Manufacturing Industry ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
Lac Manufactures WB 6338 6972 7671
Laundries, Laundry Services, Cleaning and Dyeing Plants & Shops ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
Leather Goods Manufactory ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
 Loading & Unloading Operations ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
Malls, Multiplexes, Departmental Stores and Mega Stores ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Medicinal Plant other than Cinchona WB 6338
 Non-Banking Private Financial Institutions ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Oil Mills ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Paints & Chemicals Factories ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Paper Board & straw Board Mfg. Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Plastic Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Plywood Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Power Loom (Less than 10 person) ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Power Loom (10 or more person) ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Printing Press ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Private Hospitals and Research Centres not carried on by Government or ZONE A 7776 8553 9409 10350
Local Authorities ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Public Motor Transport WB 6977.00(Cleaner & Lorry Coolies) 7030.00(Conductor) 7038(Fitters and TimeTime Where any expression of it occurs in any Rules, or any judgment, order or direction, and whenever the doing or not doing of anything at a certain time of the day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law, that time is, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, held to be standard time as used in a particular country or state. (In Physics, time and Space never exist actually-“quantum entanglement”) Keepers) 7109 (Drivers and Mechanics)
Rolling of Iron Rods, Plates, Angles etc. and Rolling Mills ZONE A 7775
ZONE B 7202
Refractory Industry WB 6390 6450 6510 6570
Rice Mills WB 5869 6457 7104 7815
Rope Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Rubber & Rubber Products Calcutta 5864 5875 5901
HowrahHowrah From Haroya or Haor. Old Bhoorsut (ভুরশুট) of Pal empire (Present Howrah and Hoogly). Krishna Ray used to rule Bhoorsut roughly in 1583-1584. Bhoorsut, mentioned as Bator in Manasamangal written by Bipradas Pipilai (1495). & hoogly 5179 5190 5216
Burdwan 5826 5837 5863
Darjeeling, except Siliguri 4369 4380 4406
SubDivn.
Jalpaigur, Coochbe 4303 4314 4340
har &
Siliguri
SubDivn.
Bankura, Midnapo re & Purulia 5144 5155 5181
Birbhum 5134 5145 5171
Nadia & Murshida bad 5019 5030 5056
Malda, Uttar Dinajpur & Dakshin Dinajpur 4930 4941 4967
 Saloons and Beauty Parlour ZONE A 7775 8554 9409 10349
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713 9586
Salt Manufacturing Industry WB 6338 6972 7671 8439
Saw Mills ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Sericulture Nursery & Cultivation (B) Silk Spinning And/Or Weaving ( Hand Loom) WB 5869
Security services ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Shoes Making  Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Silk Mills ZONE A 7776
ZONE B 7202
Silk Printing ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Stone Breaking and Stone crushing ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Sweeping and cleaning excluding activities prohibited under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Tailoring Industry ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing ZONE A 7776 8553 9409
ZONE B 7202 7920 8713
Tea Plantation RATES ARE NOW GOVERNED BY AGREEMENTContract An agreement enforceable by law is a contract. All agreements are contracts if they are made by the free consent of parties competent to contract, for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object, and are not hereby expressly declared to be void. Indian Contract Act.
Tobacco Gowdown WB 6338