Monthly conversion hours for a full-time employee
Read by nearly everyone as an expectation of hours worked, which it is not — it is the divisor that turns a monthly salary into an hourly rate for the minimum wage test. It moves only if statutory weekly hours or the paid weekly holiday change, and both are live policy questions, which is exactly why the value is worth dating rather than treating as a constant.
- Applies to
- Full-time employees on a 40-hour week with a paid weekly holiday
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-01-01209 hours
(40 contractual + 8 paid weekly holiday) x 52.14 weeks / 12 months = 208.56, used as 209. Anyone paid monthly divides by this figure, not by hours worked, to test their rate against the minimum wage.
Ministry of Employment and Labor, minimum wage monthly conversion basis
One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.
Guides that depend on this figure
When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.