| Comparative Minimum Wage Rates Prevailing in Scheduled Employments in Central and State Sphere in Punjab (As on 31.12.2017) | |
| Scheduled Employments | Minimum Wage Rate (In Rs. per Day) |
| Agricultural Implements, Machine Tools and General Engineering including Electrical Goods Industry | |
| Agriculture | |
| Ahatas attached to Wine and Liquor Shops or Ahatas Attached to Beverages Shops Except Soft Drinks and Carbonated Water | |
| Any Manufacturing Process as defined under Section 2(k)/2(a)2(m) of the Factories Act, 1948 | |
| Automobile Engineering Workshops/Auto Body Fabrication/Automobile Repairing | |
| Ayurvedic/Allopathic & Unani Pharmacy | |
| Bakery/Baking Process including Biscuits/Confectionery | |
| Book Selling/Exercise Books & Binding | |
| Brick Making and Brick Kiln | |
| Cement and Hume Pipe/Cement Prestressed Product/Cement Products Industry | |
| Chemical and Distillery Industry | |
| Cinema/Theatre | |
| Construction/Maintenance of Buildings/Roads | |
| Contract Estt. of the Forest Deptt. | |
| Cotton Ginning and Pressing | |
| Dealer in Medicines and Chemicals | |
| Domestic Workers | |
| Electronic/Electric/Electrical Industry, Sale and Distribution/SEEPZ | |
| Electroplating/Buffing/Polishing | |
| Employment in Ornament Making Polishing Repairing and Selling Establishments | |
| Government or Semi Government Undertakings | |
| Employment in Toll Plaza Establishments | |
| Employment in Zoo and Places where Caring of Wild Animals is Done | |
| Employment in Malls and Shopping Complexes Establishments | |
| Employment in Building and other Constructions Work Establishments as Defined in Clause (d) of Sub-section(1) of Section 2 of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 | |
| Establishments defined under Section 2(1)(VII) of Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958 | |
| Establishments with Manufacturing Process as Defined in Clause (k) of Section 2 of Factories Act, 1948 | |
| Shops and Commercial Establishments | |
| Forestry/Timbering Operations & Social Forestry/Forest Produce | |
| Foundries with or without Attached Machine Shops | |
| Hair Cutting Saloon | |
| Hotels and Restaurants or Eating Houses Covered by the Schedule Employments (Shops & Commercial Establishments) | |
| Ice Factory, Cold Drinks and Cold Storage | |
| Laundries/Dry Washing/Dyeing Plants | |
| Local Authority/Municipality/Municipal Corporation/Gram Panchayat | |
| Metal Rolling & Re-rolling (Ferrous) | |
| Metal Rolling/Re-rolling (Non-Ferrous) | |
| Milk Processing and Milk Products Manufacturing Establishments Excluding Halwais Shops | |
| Motor Body Builders/ Mechanical/ Local Transport Workshops/Automobile Repairing Workshops and Garages/Light Motor Vehicle | |
| Oil Mills | |
| Optical and Photographic Goods | |
| Paper and Paper Board | |
| Petroleum Supply Stations Establishments/Distribution of Liquid Petroleum Gas Cylinders | |
| Potteries/Ceramics/Fire Bricks | |
| Printing Presses/Lithography, Photography and other Similar Works | |
| Private Coaching Classes, Schools including Nursery Schools and Technical Institutions | |
| Private Hospital, Nursing Homes, Dispensaries, Medical Clinics Radiology, Pathology Laboratories Surgical Clinic | |
| Public Motor Transport | |
| Public Works Department (Irrigation) | |
| Public Works Department (Public Health) | |
| Pulp and Paper, Paper Board and Card Board Manufactory | |
| Readymade Garments | |
| Rice/Flour/Dal Mill | |
| Rubber/Rubber Products (Including Tyres and Tubes) | |
| Saw Mills | |
| Scientific Industry | |
| Security Agencies (Private)/Watch and Ward | |
| Shoe/Footwear Industry and Dealers | |
| Shops & Commercial Establishments covered by the Schedule of Shop & Commercial Establishment | |
| Soap/Detergent Making/Cosmetics | |
| Sports Goods Industry | |
| Starch Industry | |
| Steel Amirah, Tables, Chairs and Steel Furniture | |
| Stone Breaking & Stone Crushing | |
| Sugar Industry | |
| Surgical and Clinical Instruments Making Industry | |
| Sweeping & Sanitation Works/Safai Karamcharis | |
| Tailoring, Stitching and Embroidery | |
| Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | |
| Tent Dealers, Crockery and Household Goods Establishments | |
| Textile Industry | |
| Tubewell Sinking/Drilling Operations | |
| Utensil Shops | |
| Vegetable Ghee Manufacturing and Vegetable Oil Refining Establishments | |
| India | |
