Before June 2020, the labor market in Pakistan was at equilibrium with an equilibrium wage (WE) of Rs. 15,000 and equilibrium quantity of labor (LE) 10 million. In the last week of June, 2020, government of Pakistan imposed a minimum wage Act raising the minimum wage to Rs. 20,000.

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