Records in the live release
1,047
Release 2026-11-12, 12 November 2026. Its fingerprint: c6b47330c58fcae98e19473adae482e6dc574778592715259f924d42f873a9d2 (what that is).
Datasets·UM-003·Labour·Early access
Bargaining-council minimum wages
Minimum wages by bargaining council, job grade and area, with council levies and effective dates, from gazetted agreements.
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What it holds
How far it reaches
1,047 minimum wages and levies from gazetted instruments: the National Minimum Wage (R30.23 an hour from 1 March 2026, with farm, domestic, public works and learnership rates), the contract cleaning (SD1) and wholesale and retail (SD9) sectoral determinations, and the agreements extended to non-parties of MIBCO (motor industry, to August 2028), NBCRFLI (road freight), NBCPSS (private security), BCCEI (civil engineering), the two contract cleaning councils (BCCCI in KwaZulu-Natal, the rates SD1 leaves to it; RBCCS in Gauteng, Gqeberha and Cape Town/Stellenbosch), NBCCI (chemical industry: its glass and fast-moving consumer goods sectors), the building councils of the Cape of Good Hope (BIBC) and North and West Boland, and the furniture council for Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Free State, with each agreement's levies where it prints them. Next: clothing (NBCCMI's gazetted tables ran to 31 August 2026; waiting for its next wage notice), the chemical industry's pharmaceutical sector (its agreement prints only the minimum before the agreed increases), hospitality, allowances and guaranteed increases, and a weekly scan of new gazettes.
How often it changes
As published
The Minister extends council agreements in the Government Gazette (about three a month across councils, some three months after the agreement); the National Minimum Wage changes on 1 March each year.
Where the figures come from
Government Printing Works. Figures from official texts (Government Gazette notices, regulator decisions): no copyright in them under the Copyright Act, s12(8)(a).
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Measured accuracy
50 of 50 sampled records checked against the source page on 12 November 2026: no errors. The sample and any failures.
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Get it
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Through the API
/v1/datasets/wage-tables/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
The full history, built with release 2026-11-10. A download takes a key; the fingerprints are public. How to download a snapshot.
wage-tables-2026-11-10-records.parquet: 1,132 record rows (every release), 105 kB. sha2562800503ce03e01dd…wage-tables-2026-11-10-facts.parquet: 1,047 facts with their pages, 52 kB. sha256f3a913dfcb020716…
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
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