Morocco to Raise Minimum Wage by 5% for Private Sector Workers in 2025

According to this draft decree presented by the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, the legal minimum wage will increase by 5% for non-agricultural and agricultural activities. This text sets the minimum wage at 17.1 dirhams per hour in non-agricultural activities from January 1, 2025, said the Delegate Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament, government spokesman, Mustapha Baitas, at a press briefing following the Council. As of April 1, 2025, the legal minimum wage paid for a day’s work in agricultural activities will be set at 93 dirhams, he further specified.

According to the minister’s explanations, this project comes in application of the commitments related to the improvement of the incomes of private sector employees, contained in the tripartite social agreement signed on April 29, 2024 between the government, the most representative trade union centers and the professional organizations of employers, concerning the increase in the legal minimum wage for agricultural and non-agricultural activities, but also in application of the provisions of Decree No. 2.08.374 of 5 Rajab 1429 (July 9, 2008) implementing Article 356 of Law No. 65.99 relating to the Labor Code.