Lopez Obrador raised Mexico’s minimum wage by 16% in 2019 and by additional 20% at the start of 2020. In 2018 a minimum wage worker in Mexico took home just over $2,000, around a tenth of the salary earned by minimum wage workers in France, the U.K. and Canada, and less than half of the take-home pay of minimum wage workers in Brazil and Colombia. In the third quarter of 2019 Mexico recorded nearly 10 million workers earning less than the minimum wage salary. The increase is notable, but Mexico’s daily minimum wage will still be around half of the hourly minimum wage in Arizona and California. The 2019 minimum wage at the northern border was 81.3% of the November 2018 median wage.

Source: Forbes January 03, 2020 14:08 UTC