For decades, the minimum wage was a pending subject of Mexican governments. The country opted for years to maintain the base salary with minimal increases, below its counterparts in Latin America such as Brazil, Chile and Colombia. In 2010, a Mexican worker with the basic salary received about 56 pesos a day (2.5 euros to the current change). However, from the arrival of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the increases accelerated double digit. If in 2018 the minimum wage was around 88 pesos per day, at the end of its mandate, in 2024, more than 375 pesos were reached for the border states (17 euros) and in 249 pesos (11.2 euros) for the rest of the country, that is, it tripled its value. The image of its predecessor, the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum managed Minimum salary in 2025. For this year an increase of 12% was agreed to reach more than 419 pesos a day in the Northern Border Strip, equivalent to about 12,500 pesos per month, and in 278 pesos in the rest of the country, which is a salary of 8,300 pesos per month in the northernmost areas. This increase directly benefits 8.5 million workers who receive the base salary and also represents a reference for the rest of professional wages. In Mexico, the rise in minimum wages has become one of the inescapable flags of the social struggle of the governments of the Morena party. With this last increase, progress is made in the objective that a worker who earns the minimum can pay without problems the basic food needs for a family of four members, with two working adults and two minors. The Mexican six -year goal is that at the end of the Sheinbaum's mandate the minimum scope salary to buy 2.5 basic baskets per month. Currently, the basic basket consists of 24 products and its average cost together is about 1,000 pesos. The main argument not to raise base salaries was due to the inflationary effect that it could have and that, by raising the costs of companies, could increase the levels of informality in the economy. However, recent increases have not resulted in a price escalation or in the closure of companies. The researcher and analyst Viri Ríos explains that the main result of the increases to the minimum wage, which have been accompanied by other favorable regulations for the worker, has been a historical reduction of poverty in Mexico. According to World Bank data, about 10 million Mexicans left poverty between 2018 and 2024 and, according to river calculations, 73% of this decrease in poor have been directly related to salary increases. The analyst recalls that in Mexico there were very low minimum wages for many years because governments in power had a business bias that alerted the inflationary effect. «This was a myth and has been demonstrated in the last six years that there have been these increases (in the basic salary) without having created an inflationary spiral,» he says. After years of delay with respect to its Latin American peers, Mexico has taken a step forward to raise the purchasing power of its workers via the rise to the minimum wage. Contrary to the pessimistic scenarios that outlined a price increase, more pressure for small and medium enterprises and an informality promotion, these increases, in addition to helping to combat poverty, have closed the gap of income inequality, detonated consumption and raised consumer confidence. In Mexico there is a space for salaries to grow above inflation without generating pressure on labor costs. For Ríos, in the six -year term of Sheinbaum he will continue the strategy of raising this salary, however, not with the same thrust of his predecessor, López Obrador. «There is a wide margin of maneuver so that a country like Mexico has better salaries,»