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01-06-2009, 02:11 PM
The Dominican government continues to strengthen its position as the country's leading employer. El Caribe reports that while in December 2004, six months into the change of administration from the PRD to the PLD, the number of paid posts in central government increased from 287,275 to 410,861. According to the Social Security Treasury Department, another 123,795 are on decentralized department payrolls.
The PRD government has already been criticized for excess employment. This means the central government payroll increased from RD$2.3 billion as of December 2004 to RD$4.8 billion as of November 2008.
Decentralized institutions have a separate budget that adds another RD$1.95 billion to this total, for a total RD$6.75 billion on the government employee payroll. This does not include the multiple perks that government employees receive, such as a generous luxury vehicle purchase plans, fuel, cell phone and travel allowances.
El Caribe says the Controller General figures do not include employees in the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court, state prosecutors, among others), the Legislative Branch (Congress), the Central Electoral Board (JCE), the Chamber of Accounts, Customs and the Department of Taxes that have budgetary and administrative independence from the Central Government.
According to government statistics, the central government ministries with the greatest number employees on their payrolls are:
Education 92,423 or 22% (most are administrative not teachers)
Armed Forces 53,114 (13%)
Public Health 49,141 (12%)
Interior & Police 32,976 (8%)
Presidency 11,416
El Caribe provides a sample of the number of employees on the payrolls of decentralized government institutions:
Dominican Social Security Institute 8,630
Banco de Reservas 6,976
Santo Domingo Municipality 6,063
National Potable Water Institute (INAPA) 5,582
Customs Department 4,950
Central Bank 3,415
Dominican Agrarian Institute 3,193
Santo Domingo Water Corporation (CAASD) 2,887
Tax Department 2,710
Chamber of Deputies 2,569
National Lottery 2,440
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The PRD government has already been criticized for excess employment. This means the central government payroll increased from RD$2.3 billion as of December 2004 to RD$4.8 billion as of November 2008.
Decentralized institutions have a separate budget that adds another RD$1.95 billion to this total, for a total RD$6.75 billion on the government employee payroll. This does not include the multiple perks that government employees receive, such as a generous luxury vehicle purchase plans, fuel, cell phone and travel allowances.
El Caribe says the Controller General figures do not include employees in the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court, state prosecutors, among others), the Legislative Branch (Congress), the Central Electoral Board (JCE), the Chamber of Accounts, Customs and the Department of Taxes that have budgetary and administrative independence from the Central Government.
According to government statistics, the central government ministries with the greatest number employees on their payrolls are:
Education 92,423 or 22% (most are administrative not teachers)
Armed Forces 53,114 (13%)
Public Health 49,141 (12%)
Interior & Police 32,976 (8%)
Presidency 11,416
El Caribe provides a sample of the number of employees on the payrolls of decentralized government institutions:
Dominican Social Security Institute 8,630
Banco de Reservas 6,976
Santo Domingo Municipality 6,063
National Potable Water Institute (INAPA) 5,582
Customs Department 4,950
Central Bank 3,415
Dominican Agrarian Institute 3,193
Santo Domingo Water Corporation (CAASD) 2,887
Tax Department 2,710
Chamber of Deputies 2,569
National Lottery 2,440
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)