UMA values 2025 (2026 pending)
The values of Mexico’s UMA rise in January year, and these affect the financial criteria to qualify for residency in Mexico.
- UMA for 2025 is $113.14 pesos.
- UMA typically rises each year in line with Mexico’s official inflation rate, currently around 4%.
- The official value for UMA is published by INEGI usually in the first week of each new year.
UMA for 2025 was published on January 9, 2025 at a rate of $113.14 pesos.
(Was $108.57 pesos in 2024.)
For decades, official fees, fines and other calculations (including ‘economic’ solvency’ calculations for legal residency) in Mexico were based on a multiple of ‘daily minimum wage’ (Salarios Minimos).
UMA replaced ‘Minimum Wage’ for official calculations
In 2016, the Mexican government began to decouple the official ‘daily minimum wage’ from all types of official calculations, and introduced a new measure, known as Unidad de Medida y Actualización, more commonly referred to by its acronym, UMA.
The UMA has enabled the country’s daily minimum salary to be increased significantly without the corresponding punitive rises in public charges and fees. Mexico’s daily minimum wage has been increased by inflation-busting rises year-on-year since 2017, but UMA has risen much less—in line with official inflation.
Mexican consulates directed to use UMA
When you apply for legal residency in Mexico under the auspice of ‘economic solvency,’ the financial criteria for qualification were originally tied to multiples of the daily minimum wage, but Mexico’s Immigration Institute, the INM, are now applying multiples of UMA to their calculations instead.
Mexican Consulates abroad were directed to adopt UMA for their residency qualification criteria starting in July 2025 —nearly a decade after UMAs were introduced— and at higher multiples than the original law stipulated, effectively rebasing the ‘economic solvency’ requirements for residency to 2025 levels.
Learn more about residency in Mexico
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- Learn more about financial criteria for residency in Mexico
- Principal routes to obtaining legal residency
- Free continuously-updated guide to Mexico immigration
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