- Vital and mobile minimum wage increase: How much will it rise in December 2025?
- Increase ceilings for unemployment benefits
After the failure of the last meeting of the Living and Mobile Minimum Wage Council, where no agreement was reached, the government has unilaterally formalized a new series of He increases For basic income.
He made it through Resolution 9/2025 Published today, Wednesday, in the Official Gazette, which specifies the upcoming increases in Minimum wage for this period November 2025 – August 2026.
The resolution bears the signature of the alternate president of the Council. Claudia Silvana Testaand will be published later Disagreement Between the government, business and workers at the November 26 meeting.
This is how the official resolution details it: “With regard to the session of the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the Vital and Mobile Minimum Wages, (…) it was reported that There was no agreement And representative sector proposals for Workers A representative sector proposal for Employers“
Thus, without consensus between the parties, the executive branch went ahead with negotiations SMVM updated by decreeThis will also happen if the Council fails. This dynamic has been maintained since the arrival Javier Miley To power.
It should be noted that in practice, the minimum wage mainly affects the amount of remuneration Unemployment benefit and other social assistance, the limits of which will also be updated.
Vital and mobile minimum wage increase: How much will it rise in December 2025?
In this way, the minimum wage will be for November 2025 (which will be settled next December). $328,400an increase of only $6,200, less than a 2% Versus the basic that has been maintained since August of this year $322,200.
Moreover, it is defined that, between November 2025 and August 2026SMVM will move as follows for workers per month Full time legal:
- November 2025: $328,400;
- December 2025: $334,800;
- January 2026: $341,000;
- February 2026: $346,800;
- March 2026: $352,400;
- April 2026: $357,800;
- May 2026: $363,000;
- June 2026: $367,800;
- July 2026: $372,400;
- August 2026: $376,600.
For its part, the hourly increase will move in a similar way: in November it will move from $1610 Current l $1642 Finally, in August 2026 it will arrive $1883.
The minimum wage increase applies to “all monthly workers who complete the full legal work day, in accordance with Article 116 of the Employment Contracts System approved by Law No. 20744 and its amendments.”
In addition, day laborers are also taken into account, who will collect SMVM “in the appropriate proportion”, calculated per hour.
Increase ceilings for unemployment benefits
One of the most important points governed by the minimum wage is the unemployment benefits paid by the government.
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