Implimentation of Minimum wage will increases the standard of living of women workers, reduces poverty, reduces inequality, and boosts morale and help to reduce gender based violence.

The Punjab government in March 2019 decided to increase the minimum wages of workers from Rs15,000 to Rs16,500 per month.

In the 2019-20 budget, the federal government and the provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have raised the minimum wage for unskilled workers from Rs 15,000 to Rs 17,500 a month.

The government of Sindh has raised the minimum wage from Rs 16,200 to Rs 17,000 a month

In developing countries like Pakistan, due to limited financial resources minimum wages are a possible mechanism to guarantee a decent standard of living. But because of the dual labour market structure of developing economies, the effectiveness of the mechanism is limited. In Pakistan, the minimum wage covers only a formal sector but unfortunately, it does not apply to the informal sector. Pakistan has the ninth largest workforce in the world, a large part of which has been working in an informal sector. According to the Labour Force Survey 2008-09, the informal economy of Pakistan accounts for more than 73.3 per cent of employment in main jobs outside agriculture. Shockingly, the minimum wage policy has not been helpful in raising the income of informal workers and protecting them from exploitation by their employers. They are in low-paid and insecure work. The financial condition of these people is dismal. They have been living hand-to-mouth lives.