The Average Hourly Wage for Workers is This Much

The Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah, stated that the government plans to regulate a system of worker compensation based on hourly wages. This will apply to workers who work less than 35 hours a week. Those working over 40 hours will continue to receive formal monthly salaries. She said this system will be regulated in the Draft Law (RUU) of the Omnibus Law on Job Creation.

Based on the report "Estimation of Average Hourly Wages of Workers at the District Level Using the Small Area Estimation Method" from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), there is an inequality in average hourly wages between genders and regions. The average hourly wage in the eastern region is the highest compared to other regions. Meanwhile, based on gender, the average hourly wage for male workers is higher than that of female workers.

The average hourly wage for men in the eastern region was recorded at Rp 27,817, while for women it was Rp 21,823. This figure is higher than in the western region, which was Rp 24,917 for men and Rp 18,571 for women. The technique used in this analysis was SAE based on the Fay-Herriot model. The data sources were the 2017 National Labor Force Survey, the 2010 Population Census, and the 2014 Village Potential Data.