Solomon Islands minimum wage
Minimum rates of wages fixed by Order of the Minister for Commerce, Industry, Labour and Immigration under section 30(1) of the Labour Act (Cap. 73), published in the Solomon Islands Gazette. Two sectoral rates apply nationwide: a general rate and a lower rate for agriculture, plantations and fishing.
| Current value | structured — see the API |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2019-08-01 |
| Official source | Minimum Rates of Wages Order, Labour Act (Cap. 73) — Legal Notice No. 111, S.I. No. 47 of 2019, Supplement to the Solomon Islands Gazette, Wednesday 21 August 2019, p.556; made by Hon. Clezy Rore, Minister for Commerce, Industry, Labour and Immigration, dated at Honiara the twelfth day of August 2019, with effect from 1 August 2019 |
| Last verified | 2026-07-23 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Gazette text read verbatim from the scanned notice: 'That with effect from the 1st of August 2019 the following minimum rate of wages shall apply: (a) In all other sectors by eight dollars ($8.00) per hour. (b) In the Agriculture plantations and the fishing sectors shall be seven dollars and twenty cents ($7.20) per hour. (c) This order shall apply throughout Solomon Islands. This notice supersedes Legal Notice (LN 31/2008) issued 23rd April 2008 and is hereby deemed to be cancelled.' STRUCTURE: two rates only, split by SECTOR (not by geography, age, or occupation), both hourly, both national. The 2019 Order roughly DOUBLED the previous LN 31/2008 general rate of $4.00/hour. STILL IN FORCE AND UNCHANGED as of 23 July 2026 — no superseding Order appears in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Labour and Immigration's Labour Laws register, whose only minimum-wage instrument is this one ('Minimum Wages Rate Order', labour.gov.sb/download/4584). At 45 hours/week (the Labour Act standard working week) the general rate is about $360/week, ~$1,560/month. The rate has now stood nominally unchanged for nearly seven years against cumulative CPI inflation (national CPI 2017=100 stood at 134.2 in May 2026), so the real floor has fallen materially; the ~400-day update_cycle_days is aspirational rather than observed. ACCESS NOTES — BOTH OFFICIAL COPIES ARE IMAGE-ONLY. The Ministry's minimum-wage page (labour.gov.sb/employment-in-solomon-islands/minimum-wage/) contains NO machine-readable figures at all: the rates exist solely inside the scanned PNG cited above. The downloadable 'Minimum Wages Rate Order' PDF (labour.gov.sb/download/4584) is likewise a single-page scan with zero extractable text. A source-watcher must OCR or diff these images; text scraping of labour.gov.sb will silently return nothing. PacLII's Solomon Islands subsidiary-legislation index carries only the older 1999 Labour Act notice (paclii.org/sb/legis/sub_leg/laaotfotcol41999651.pdf) and paclii.org returned HTTP 403 to direct fetches during confirmation.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-23 | structured | Legal Notice No. 31 of 2008, issued 23 April 2008 under the |
Get it programmatically
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