Minimum pay for household work
Since 30 April 2024 the minimum wage and the 8-hour day cover housekeepers, gardeners and other household workers (Ministerial Regulation No. 15). Pick the area and the hours.
Lowest lawful pay, Mueang Chiang Mai district:
380 baht / day
- Minimum wage per day
- 380 baht
- Per hour (day ÷ 8)
- 47.5 baht
- Per week, 1 days
- 380 baht
- Per month
- 1,647 baht
Daily pay: each day worked earns at least the daily minimum, however few hours (Notification No. 14, clause 19). Per month = per week × 52 ÷ 12. No hourly minimum wage has been announced; the hourly figure is the day ÷ 8, the rate holiday and overtime pay count from.
What the regulation sets
- At most 8 hours of normal work a day.
- A rest of at least 1 hour a day, and at least 1 rest day a week.
- At least 13 paid public holidays a year.
- A daily-paid worker is paid for the public holidays and annual leave, not the weekly rest day (s.56). Work on a holiday: at least 1× the hourly rate on top for a worker paid for that day, at least 2× for one who is not (s.62).
- 6 paid working days of annual leave after 1 year.
- Sick leave as needed, paid up to 30 working days a year.
- At least 3 days a year of leave for necessary personal business; pay for those days is by agreement (DLPW).
- Maternity leave under s.41 and s.59, which since 7 December 2025 read up to 120 days, 60 paid; no dismissal for pregnancy.
- Deductions only in the cases the law lists, 10% each and 20% in all at most.
- Not set by the regulation for household work: severance pay and the 1.5× / 3× overtime rates. The two may agree them in writing.
Floors: Ministerial Regulation No. 15 B.E. 2567 under the Labour Protection Act B.E. 2541, Royal Gazette vol. 141 part 26 Kor, in force 30 April 2024 · Maternity: Labour Protection Act (No. 9) B.E. 2568, in force 7 December 2025 · Minimum wage: Wage Committee Notification on Minimum Wage Rates (No. 14), Royal Gazette vol. 142 special issue 236 Ng, in force 1 July 2025 · read 2026-10-04 · mol.go.th · labour.go.th · LPA No. 9