| Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers in Scheduled Employments under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 in Tamil Nadu (As on 31.12.2015) | ||||
| Scheduled Employment | Area/Zone | Minimum Wages (In Rs.) | ||
| Basic | D.A. | Total | ||
| Aerated Water Manufactory | ||||
| Agarbathi Manufactory | ||||
| Agriculture and Works Ancillary to Agriculture I) Men Workers For 6 Hours Work | ||||
| II) Women Workers - 5 Hours Work | ||||
| Any Local Authority | ||||
| Appalam Manufactory | ||||
| Apprentices in Textile Mills | ||||
| Automobile Workshops | ||||
| Autorickshaws and Taxis | ||||
| Bakeries and Biscuit Manufactory | ||||
| Bricks and Tiles Manufactory | ||||
| Bleaching and Dyeing Industry | ||||
| Bought Leaf Tea Factories | ||||
| Carpentary and Blacksmithy | ||||
| Cashewnut Industry | ||||
| Chemical Fertilizer Industry | ||||
| Cinema Industry | ||||
| Coaching Academics | ||||
| Coconut Peeling | ||||
| Coffee Curing Works | ||||
| Coir Manufactory | ||||
| Colleges and Research Stations under the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Agricultural Farms Maintained by the Agricultural and Horticulture and other Govt. Departments I) Men Workers For 6 Hours Work | ||||
| II) Women Workers - 5 Hours Work | ||||
| Construction or Maintenance of Roads or Buildings Operations | ||||
| Construction of Pandals | ||||
| Cotton Ginning, Pressing | ||||
| Cotton Waste | ||||
| Distribution of Liquid Petroleum Gas Cylinders | ||||
| Electronics Industry | ||||
| I) Fire Works | ||||
| II) Match Manufactory | ||||
| Food Processing Industry | ||||
| Footwear Making Industry | ||||
| Forestry | ||||
| General Engineering and Fabrication Industry | ||||
| Gold and Silver Articles Manufactory | ||||
| Granite Industry | ||||
| Gunny Industry | ||||
| Handloom Silk Weaving Industry | ||||
| Handloom Weaving Industry | ||||
| Hospitals and Nursing Homes | ||||
| Hotels and Restaurants | ||||
| Hosiery Manufactury | ||||
| Laundries and Washing Clothes | ||||
| Leather Goods Manufactory | ||||
| Loading and Un-Loading Operations | ||||
| Mat Weaaving and Basket Making | ||||
| Medical and Sales Representatives | ||||
| Motion Picture Industry | ||||
| Mushroom Growing and Allied Works | ||||
| Neera Tapping | ||||
| Oil Mills | ||||
| (I)Paper and other Incidental Processes Connected with Handmade Paper | ||||
| II)Paper and other Incidental Processes Connected with Machine Made Paper Industry | ||||
| Plantations - Tea | ||||
| Plantations - Coffee | ||||
| Plantations - Rubber | ||||
| Polythene Processing, Foam Items and Plastic Manufactory | ||||
| Powerloom Industry | ||||
| Printing Presses | ||||
| Public Motor Transport | ||||
| Rice, Flour and Dal Mills | ||||
| Sago Industry | ||||
| Salt Pans | ||||
| Sea Food Processing Industry | ||||
| Security Guards | ||||
| Sericulture | ||||
| Shops and Commercial Establishments | ||||
| Silk Twisting Industry | ||||
| Soap Manufactory | ||||
| Synthetic Gem Cutting Industry | ||||
| Tailoring Industry | ||||
| Tanneries and Leather Manufactory | ||||
| Timber Industry | ||||
| Tin Container Manufactory | ||||
| I)Beedi Making other Than Beedi Rolling | ||||
| II)Scented and Chewing Tobacco | ||||
| III)Snuff Industry | ||||
| IV) Beeding Rolling (1000 Beedies) | ||||
| Tree Climbing I) Men Workers For 6 Hours Work | ||||
| Tree Climbing - Women Workers 5 Hrs. Work | ||||
| Vessels (Utensils) Manufactory | ||||
| Woollen Carpet and Shawl Weaving Industry | ||||
| India | ||||
