In industrialized nations, minimum wage is an amount imposed on all employers of labor by government. No employer of labor may pay less to any worker. Minimum wage is always high enough that income tax deduction will leave enough to live on. In organised and formalized economies, the higher the minimum wage the higher the government revenue from income taxes. It is not like that in Nigeria where only the government and a few other players in the economy pay the minimum wage because the majority of the economy is disorganised and informal. Minimum wage in Nigeria takes money out of the hands of government by way of wages of civil servants but increases government revenue in formalized and organised economies. The way out is to formalize and organise all national economies so that an increase in statutory minimum wage will always lead to an increase in government revenue from income taxes. This is the beginning of nation building.