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Source: Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina — Secretaría de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, Resolución 9/2025 (Consejo Nacional del Empleo, la Productividad y el SMVM) · effective Jun 1, 2026
Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina — Secretaría de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, Resolución 9/2025 (Consejo Nacional del Empleo, la Productividad y el SMVM)Argentina's Salario Mínimo Vital y Móvil (SMVM) is published both as a monthly amount for full-time monthly workers (mensualizados) and natively per hour for hourly/day workers (jornalizados). Reported figure is the standard adult full-time tier. Effective from 1 June 2026: ARS 367,800/month for mensualizados and ARS 1,839/hour for jornalizados. Both are part of a schedule of staggered increases set unilaterally by government via Resolución 9/2025 (published in the Boletín Oficial on 3 Dec 2025) after no tripartite agreement; the schedule runs through August 2026 (July: 372,400/mo; August: 376,600/mo). The statutory full legal workday in Argentina is 48 hours/week (8h/day). No age tiers for the standard adult rate; the SMVM applies to dependent workers under the Régimen de Contrato de Trabajo, agrarian workers, and national public administration employees, and serves as an informal reference for the unregistered sector (~40% of the workforce). Both monthly (367,800) and hourly (1,839) values cross-confirmed by Infobae, El Cronista and others citing Resolución 9/2025; basis set to native_hourly because an official per-hour rate exists, so weekly_hours_used is null.
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