| Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers in Scheduled Employments under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 in Tamil Nadu (As on 31.12.2002) | |||
| Scheduled Employment | Minimum Wages  (In Rs.) | ||
| Basic | DA | Total | |
| Aerated Water Manufactory | |||
| Agriculture | |||
| Appalam Manufactory | |||
| Automobile Workshops | |||
| Auto rickshaws and Taxis | |||
| Agarbathy Manufactory | |||
| Bakeries and Biscuit Manufactory | |||
| Bleaching / Dyeing | |||
| Bought Leaf Tea Factories | |||
| Bricks & Tiles Manufactory | |||
| Carpentry & Black smithy | |||
| Cashew nut Industry | |||
| Cinema Industry | |||
| 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 Horticultural and other Govt. Departments. | |||
| Construction or maintenance of Roads or Buildings Operations | |||
| Cotton Ginning, Pressing & Cotton Waste | |||
| Chemical Fertilizer Industry | |||
| Electronics Industry | |||
| Food Processing Industry | |||
| Forestry | |||
| General Engineering & Fabrication Industry | |||
| Gold and Silver Articles Manufacturers | |||
| Gunny Industry | |||
| Hospitals and Nursing Homes | |||
| Hotels and Restaurants | |||
| i) Fire Works ii) Match Manufactory | |||
| Granite Industry | |||
| Laundries and Washing Clothes | |||
| Loading and Un-loading Operations | |||
| Motion Picture Industry | |||
| Medical and Sales Representatives | |||
| Neera Tapping | |||
| Oil Mills | |||
| Paper and Other incidental Processes | |||
| Plantations | |||
| Polythene Processing, Foam Items & Plastic Industry | |||
| Power loom Industry | |||
| Printing Presses | |||
| Public Motor Transport | |||
| Rice, Flour and Dal Mills | |||
| Sago Industry | |||
| Salt Pans | |||
| Sea Food Processing | |||
| Sericulture | |||
| Shops & Commercial Establishments | |||
| Silk Twisting Industry | |||
| Soap Manufactory | |||
| Security Guards | |||
| Tailoring Industry | |||
| Timber Industry | |||
| Tin Container Manufactory | |||
| Tanneries & Leather Manufactory | |||
| Tobacco Manufactory i) Beedi Rolling ii) Scented & Chewing Tobacco iii) Snuff Industry | |||
| Vessels (Utensils) Manufactory | |||
| Woollen Carpet & Shawl Weaving Industry | |||
