Ghana's National Daily Minimum Wage will rise from GHS 21.77 to GHS 25.04 on 1 January 2027 and to GHS 28.79 on 1 January 2028, under a two-year agreement announced by the National Tripartite Committee in a communiqué dated 10 November 2026, 3News, JoyNews and the Daily Graphic reported.
The 2027 rate is GHS 3.27 a day, or 15.0%, higher than the 2026 rate. The 2028 rate is a further GHS 3.75, or 15.0%, on top of that, leaving the minimum wage GHS 7.02, or 32.2%, above today's level by 2028. These percentages are StatsGH calculations from the communiqué's figures; the Daily Graphic described the 2027 increase as 25.4%, which does not match the rates.
Faster than the last rise
The 2026 rate of GHS 21.77 was itself a 9.0% increase on 2025's GHS 19.97, 3News reported. The new 15% steps are also well above consumer price inflation, which the Ghana Statistical Service put at 5.5% in October. How much workers gain in real terms will depend on how prices move over the next two years.
For a worker paid for 26 days a month, the new rates work out at about GHS 651 a month in 2027 and GHS 749 in 2028, against about GHS 566 now. These monthly figures are StatsGH calculations; the communiqué sets daily rates only.
A two-year deal, with a review clause
The committee, made up of government, employers and organised labour, said it had moved to a multi-year framework "to promote predictability in wage determination, facilitate medium-term planning and budgeting, protect workers' incomes and sustain industrial harmony". It said the partners would reconvene to review the rates "where there are material changes in key economic indicators, including inflation, exchange rates, and economic growth".
"All establishments, institutions or organisations whose daily minimum wages are below the new NDMW should adjust accordingly effective 1st January, 2027," the communiqué said. The committee also urged employers to comply fully and called on the government to make the minimum wage tax-exempt.
The communiqué was signed by Labour, Jobs and Employment Minister Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum and Deputy Finance Minister Thomas Nyarko Ampem for the government, Ghana Employers' Association President Nana Dr Emmanuel Adu-Sarkodee Afriyie, and Trades Union Congress Secretary-General Joshua Ansah. The agreement comes two days before Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson presents the 2027 Budget to Parliament on Thursday 12 November.
StatsGH has not yet seen the communiqué on a ministry website; the rates and quotations above are as published by the outlets cited, which carry the same figures.
Sources: National Tripartite Committee communiqué, 10 November 2026, as reported by 3News, JoyNews, Republic Online and the Daily Graphic; Ghana Statistical Service October 2026 CPI.