Minimum Wage to Rise in 2011

The minimum wage is used as an index for traffic fines (state offenses use Zone B, Federales use Zone A) and minimum needed to show for immigration purposes. This is the way it affects most of the foreigners here.

The rise from 2010 to 2011 is 4.1 per cent.

Starting January 1, 2010, the minimum daily wage for Geographic Zona A will be 59.80 pesos, Zone B will be 58.10 pesos and Zone C will be 56.75 pesos.

Geographic Zona A is comprised of the Distrito Federal and its Area Metropolitana, the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, the cities de Acapulco, Guerrero; Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; Nogales, Sonora; Matamoros, Tamaulipas and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, among others.

Geographic Zona B is comprised of Guadalajara, Jalisco; Monterrey, Nuevo León; Hermosillo, Sonora; Tampico, Tamaulipas; Poza Rica de Hidalgo, Veracruz.

Geographic Zona C is comprised of 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.

In this same zone specific municipios are included of the following states: Chihuahua, Guerrero, Jalisco, State of México, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Veracruz.