Daejeon Sets Next Year's Living Wage at 11,636 Won, Up 3.8%

Monthly 2,431,924 Won... Applied to 1,854 Employees of Investment and Contribution Organizations

Daejeon City has set next year's living wage at 11,636 won. / Daejeon City Hall

Daejeon City announced that it has set the 2025 living wage at 11,636 won per hour.

This is an increase of 426 won (3.8%) compared to this year's living wage (11,210 won), and 1,606 won (16%) higher than the 2025 minimum wage of 10,030 won per hour announced by the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

Converted to a monthly salary, this amounts to 2,431,924 won (based on 209 working hours per month), which is 335,654 won more than next year's minimum wage and 89,034 won more than this year's living wage.

The city plans to apply the living wage to 1,854 workers, including those employed by the city, city-funded and city-invested institutions, public corporations, and low-wage workers in privately contracted services (including those funded by the national and city governments).

Kwon Kyungmin, Director of Daejeon City’s Economic Affairs Bureau, said, “The living wage is a wage policy to ensure that low-wage workers in Daejeon’s public sector can maintain a minimum standard of living,” and added, “This decision on the living wage is the result of careful consideration for the lives of Daejeon’s workers, even amid difficult financial and local economic circumstances.”