# The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses

Date: 1755

## The fact

The Code includes clauses fixing wages and hire for workers and animals. The dated tariff is not the slave-property clauses and not the death-penalty list. [Hammurabi](/people/hammurabi)’s documented role is: Clauses list wages for field-workers, craftsmen, and animal hire. Stonecutters cut; he is the royal speaker; later Louvre is access. Do not twin this with slave-clauses. Wages for hire are not slave-property law. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hammurabi's documented role is: Clauses list wages for field-workers, craftsmen, and animal hire. Stonecutters cut; he is the royal speaker; later Louvre is access.

## Context

A palace economy, unnamed stonecutters, and later translators already sit in the file. A tariff is not a unique labour-market series. Later Louvre is not -1755. Named others on the file: Unnamed stonecutters, later translators, and unnamed hired workers as subjects of the clauses share the heading. The public setting is the file around -1755-09-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses. The setting of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses is the public file around -1755-09-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [labour-market-tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1755-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Louvre and Britannica independently note economic wage clauses as a distinct part of the Code. Official: Louvre — Code of Hammurabi, wage clauses as later public object (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436; Musée du Louvre). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, economic provisions of the Code (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Louvre — Code of Hammurabi, wage clauses as later public object (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436; Musée du Louvre). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, economic provisions of the Code (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Louvre — Code of Hammurabi, wage clauses as later public object (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436; Musée du Louvre).

## Significance

Improving labour-market path: public hire-rates (weakening opacity of wages). Medium confidence on unique enforcement. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated wage-list put public hire-rates onto the stele, distinct from slave-property clauses and from death-penalties. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

## What is established and what is not

Established: wage/hire clauses on the stele. Not established: that every wage in Babylonia was paid at those figures. Established: a sourced public record of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses under -1755-09-01. Established: a sourced public record of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses under -1755-09-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with slave-clauses. Wages for hire are not slave-property law. Mixed effects of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses are separate paths.

The attached driver is labour-market-tightness. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Hammurabi: https://factrail.ai/people/hammurabi

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-wage-tariff