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Workers in Services - Real

Minimum wage rate indices of formal private sector employees. Index, monthly.

Data source: DoL, Minimum Wage Rate Indices of Formal Private Sector Employees (31 Aug 2026)

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About this series

  • Source DoL, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Index
  • Date range Jan 2021 – Dec 2025
  • Last checked 31 Aug 2026

Checks: 1 recorded for this series, listed below. Compiled by DoL, read from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

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Name in the warehouse
Minimum wage rate indices of formal private sector employees: Workers in Services(d) - Real(f)
Read from
CBSL Economic and Social Statistics (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
Source page
https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/economic-and-social-statistics-of-sri-lanka
Notes
DoL compiles this; read from the CBSL workbook because the DoL release is PDF only (machine-readability override).

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Vintages

One vintage so far, published 31 Aug 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.

Source discrepancies

What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.

  • A true readingJul 2025

    The value moves 116% in one period, from 34.22 to 73.96, far outside its usual range.

    Outlier: 34.222 and 73.962, difference 116.1.

    moves 116% from 2025-06-01, 76 deviations outside this series' own normal; check the source

    Minimum wage revision across Wages Board trades, July 2025: the step is in ESS 3.12 itself.