| Comparative Minimum Wage Rates Prevailing in Scheduled Employments in Central and State Sphere in Tamil Nadu (As on 31.12.2019) | |
| Scheduled Employment | Minimum Wage Rate (In Rs.) Per Day |
| Agarbati Manufacturing/ Incense and Incense Sticks | |
| Agriculture | |
| Aerated Water Manufactory | |
| Appalam Manufactory | |
| Apprentices in Textile Mills | |
| Automobile Engineering Workshops/Auto Body Fabrication/Automobile Repairing | |
| Autorickshaw/Taxi Drivers, etc. | |
| Bakery / Baking Process including Biscuits/Confectionery | |
| Beverages / Distilleries Manufaturing and Vending Estt. | |
| Blacksmith | |
| Bleaching and Dyeing Industry | |
| Bought Tea Leaf Factory | |
| Brick Making and Brick Kiln | |
| Carpentery and Masonary | |
| Cashew Factories and Establishments | |
| Chemical and Distillery Industry | |
| Chemical and Fertilizer Manufactory | |
| Chemical/Medical Shop /Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Industry | |
| Cinema / Theatre | |
| Coaching Academics including nurshing and English Medium Schools and Technical Institutes | |
| Coconut Peeling / Copra Making | |
| Coffee Curing and Rubber Plantation | |
| Colleges and Research Stations under the Tamil Nadu | |
| Construction/ Maintenance of Buildings/Roads | |
| Construction of Pandals | |
| Cotton Ginning and Pressing | |
| Cotton Waste Spinning Factories | |
| Coir Manufactory | |
| Domestic Workers | |
| Electronic/Electric/Electrical Industry, Sale and Distribution/SEEPZ | |
| Food Processing/Food Preservation/ Food Products | |
| Forestry /Timbering Operations & Social Forestry/Forest Produce | |
| Footwear making Industry | |
| General Engineering | |
| Gold and Silver Ornaments and Gold Coating/Covering/Jewellery | |
| Granite Stones and Marbles Industry | |
| Gunny Industry | |
| Handloom Weaving Establishment Additional | |
| Handloom Silk Weaving industry | |
| Hosiery | |
| Hospitals and Nursing Homes and Private Clinics | |
| Hotels and Restaurants or Eating Houses covered by the schedule employments (shops & commercial Establishments) | |
| Jari Industry/ Hand Embroidery & Jari | |
| Laundries / Dry Washing /Dyeing Plants | |
| Loading and Unloading / Urea Bags/ River Sand Collection | |
| Local Authority/Municipality/Municipal Corporation/Gram Panchayat | |
| Manufacturing of Leather Goods | |
| Mat Weaving and Basket Making | |
| Match Manufacturing | |
| Medical and Sales Representatives | |
| Motion Picture Industry | |
| Mushroom Growing and Allied Works | |
| Neera Tapping | |
| Oil Mills | |
| Paper and Paper Board/ Paper Industry | |
| Petroleum Supply Stations Establishments/ Distribution of Liquid Petroleum Gas Cylinders | |
| Plantations (Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cardamom, Cinchona, etc.) | |
| Polythene foam manufacturing or processing of foam items | |
| Powerloom Industry | |
| Printing Presses/Lithography, Photography and other similar works | |
| Public Motor Transport | |
| Rice / Flour / Dal Mill | |
| Sago Industry | |
| Salt Pan Industry | |
| Sea Food Processing Industry | |
| Security Agencies (Private)/Watch and Ward | |
| Sericulture | |
| Shops & Commercial Establishments covered by the Schedule of Shop & Commercial Establishment. | |
| Shops Selling Cooked Food Stuff | |
| Silk Twisting Industry | |
| Soap / Detergent Making/Cosmetics | |
| Spinning, Knitting, Printing, Dyeing, Finishing, Bleaching of Silk Pina, Fibre/Silk Industry | |
| Synthetic Gem Cutting Industry | |
| Tailoring, Stitching and Embroidery | |
| Tanneries & Leather Manufacturing | |
| Timber Trading Industry (including/excluding felling and sawing) | |
| Tin Container Manufactory | |
| Tobacco Manufactory - Snuff Industry | |
| Tobacco Manufacturing/Eatable Tobacco | |
| Tobacco/Beedi Making/Cigar Industry | |
| Tree Climbing | |
| Metal Steel Utensils Manufacturing | |
| Woollen Carpet/Shawl Making/Weaving Industry | |
| India | |
