On December 1, 2022, Mexican President Andrés Manuel
Lopez Obrador announced that, unanimously, the business and labor
sectors, as well as the government, had agreed to increase the
minimum wage by 20 percent for 2023, which will be applicable in
the Free Zone of the Northern Border (Zona Libre de la Frontera
Norte or ZLFN), as well as the wage applicable in the rest of
the country. The increase will become official when it is published
in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario
Oficial de la Federación).
Before the increase was determined, the Mexican National
Commission on Minimum Wages (Comisión Nacional de los
Salarios Mínimos, or CONASAMI) applied an independent
recovery amount (Monto Independiente de
Recuperación or MIR) in accordance with the
following:
