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Thanks, I was wondering what the average was here.

Minimum wage per day ( below ) : Thailand labour cost is still expensive in regards of neighbouring countries.



Flags meaning from top to down : 1-Singapore, 2-Brunei, 3-Thailand, 3-Philippines, 4-Malaysia, 5-Indonesia, 6-Myanmar, 7-Vietnam, 8-Laos, 9-cambodia

cthierrymk wrote:

Minimum wage per day ( below ) : Thailand labour cost is still expensive in regards of neighbouring countries.

[img align=C]http://thaitribune.org/images/2015/5MAY/24-31/MinimumWage.jpg[/url]

Flags meaning from top to down : 1-Singapore, 2-Brunei, 3-Thailand, 3-Philippines, 4-Malaysia, 5-Indonesia, 6-
Myanmar, 7-Vietnam, 8-Laos, 9-
cambodia

The one who does this chart is plucking figures from the air and is not on the ground with realistic figures.

It's not comparing apple with apple.

Based on Thailand minimum daily wage of 300 baht pet day is unskilled labour.

Singapore and Brunei figures are not minimum wages. These 2 countries hire foreigners as unskilled labour from India; Pakistan; China; Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Previously they hired Thais but trim down a lot because of various negative factors. Besides Thais could not speak English.

The actual figures for minimum wages for Singapore and Brunei are much lower but higher than Thailand.

The figures shown are consider semi skill workers.

When one looks at stastics, one need to compare identical.

I do not mean you are wrong, Thierry but the Thai guy who does the chart.

Thanks for the info 😊

Rejoice wrote:

Singapore and Brunei figures are not minimum wages. These 2 countries hire foreigners as unskilled labour from India; Pakistan; China; Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

These 2 countries : Singapore and Brunei do not have "official" minimum wage, I agree on that fact.

The figure for these 2 countries may look high also, I think should be more around 600-700 THB.

However we don't need to focus too much about these top 2 countries.

I have published this chart to show that there are many countries with lower minimum wage than Thailand.

It has been announced also in the news that the 300 THB national daily minimum wage will be scrapped next year, to be replaced by the old system where wages vary by each province based on the cost of living.

That clear that foreigner like burmese in Thailand are paid less than the 300 THB per day, but more than in their home country for the same job.

Another clarification about Thailand, in my initial post about the survey, it was written :

Salaries are subject to 5% Social Security Fund contribution and 1% Workmen’s Compensation contribution (for the first 15,000 baht per month of salary).

This 5 % are detailed in the table below :



More informations can be found in these 2 links :

Social Security Fund ( see link ) :

Workmen compensation Fund ( see link ) :

There was just an article about poor conditions in tea growing areas in India that cited standard wages and what those growers earned there. 

It looks as if the standard minimum wage is just over $2 per day (70 baht), but that due to receiving housing and whatever other compensation the tea farmers only earn two thirds that:

Tea workers in Assam earn 115 rupees a day, just over £1 ($1.50) , significantly below the minimum wage (177 rupees in Assam).