Mexico: General Daily Minimum Wages 2006

The National Commission for Minimum Wages announced the increases of 4% in the general minimum daily wages for the three geographic areas of the Mexican Republic.

As you may know, Mexico is divided in three geographic areas as per the general minimum daily wages, which comprehend the following:

Geographic Area "A": the States of Baja California and Baja California Sur; México City; Guadalupe, Juárez and Práxedis Chihuahua; Acapulco, Guerrero; Atizapán de Zaragoza, Coacalco de Berriozábal, Cuautitlán, Cuautitlán Izcalli, Ecatepec, Naucalpan de Juárez, Tlalnepantla de Baz y Tultitlán, Estado de México; Agua Prieta, Cananea, Naco, Nogales, General Plutarco Elías Calles, Puerto Peñasco, San Luis Río Colorado and Santa Cruz, Sonora; Camargo, Guerrero, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Matamoros, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Río Bravo, San Fernando and Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas; Agua Dulce, Coatzacoalcos, Cosoleacaque, Las Choapas, Ixhuatlán del Sureste, Minatitlán, Moloacán and Nanchital de Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, Veracruz.

Geographic Area "B": Guadalajara, El Salto, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá and Zapopan, Jalisco; Apodaca, San Pedro Garza García, General Escobedo, Guadalupe, Monterrey, San Nicolás de los Garza and Santa Catarina, Nuevo León; Altar, Atil, Bácum, Benito Juárez, Benjamín Hill, Caborca, Cajeme, Carbó, La Colorada, Cucurpe, Empalme, Etchojoa, Guaymas, Hermosillo, Huatabampo, Imuris, Magdalena, Navojoa, Opodepe, Oquitoa, Pitiquito, San Ignacio Río Muerto, San Miguel de Horcasitas, Santa Ana, Sáric, Suaqui Grande, Trincheras and Tubutama, Sonora; Aldama, Altamira, Antiguo Morelos, Ciudad Madero, Gómez Farías, González, El Mante, Nuevo Morelos, Ocampo, Tampico and Xicoténcatl, Tamaulipas; Coatzintla, Poza Rica de Hidalgo and Túxpam, Veracruz.

Geographic Area "C": Chihuahua, Chihuahua; the States of Aguascalientes, Campeche, Coahuila, Colima, Chiapas, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, Yucatán and Zacatecas; and the rest of the municipalities not mentioned before.

Such wages will be mandatory as of January 1, 2006 as follows:

*The aforementioned amounts are calculated according to the exchange rate published by the Federation Official Gazette dated December 20, 2005, being $10.7283 pesos per dollar.

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