Good news for Moroccan employees

In Morocco, private sector employees will see their salaries increased from January 1, 2025. This salary increase follows the adoption by the Government Council, meeting Thursday in Rabat, of draft decree no. 2.24. 1122 establishing the legal minimum wage for agricultural and non-agricultural activities.

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 per hour in non-agricultural activities at 17.1 dirhams from January 1, 2025, specified the Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament, government spokesperson, Mustapha Baitas, during a press briefing after the Council. As of April 1, 2025, the legal minimum wage paid for a day of work in agricultural activities will be set at 93 dirhams, he further clarified.