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08-10-2012, 01:00 PM
While the National Congress discusses the bill on public salaries, which will increase the wage bill for state bureaucracy, according to data from the Social Security Treasury (TSS), as reported by Diario Libre, 53.6% of Dominican workers earn less than RD$10,000 a month.
The data showed that as at June this year, the social security system had a registry of 1,390,286 workers, of whom 745,528 earned salaries under RD$10,000.
There were 237,540 employees earning between RD$10,001 and RD$15,000, which was an increase of 10.32% over last year and represents 17% of total employees.
Earning between RD$15,001 and RD$20,000 were 115,977 employees, an increase of 2.31% and 8.3% of the total.
There were 73,829 earning between RD$20,001 and RD$25,000 which represented a decrease of -4.17% over the same period last year, whereas those earning over RD$25,000, some 217,412 employees, showed the biggest increase at 17.55% and represent 15.6% of the total.
According to TSS data, the number of business registered in the system had increased by 3,174 to 45,720 with the biggest growth in the small business sector.
According to economist Miguel Ceara Hatton, as the average size of a Dominican household is 3.7 people, household income below RD$16,000 a month should be considered as poverty, and below RD$7,086 as extreme poverty.
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The data showed that as at June this year, the social security system had a registry of 1,390,286 workers, of whom 745,528 earned salaries under RD$10,000.
There were 237,540 employees earning between RD$10,001 and RD$15,000, which was an increase of 10.32% over last year and represents 17% of total employees.
Earning between RD$15,001 and RD$20,000 were 115,977 employees, an increase of 2.31% and 8.3% of the total.
There were 73,829 earning between RD$20,001 and RD$25,000 which represented a decrease of -4.17% over the same period last year, whereas those earning over RD$25,000, some 217,412 employees, showed the biggest increase at 17.55% and represent 15.6% of the total.
According to TSS data, the number of business registered in the system had increased by 3,174 to 45,720 with the biggest growth in the small business sector.
According to economist Miguel Ceara Hatton, as the average size of a Dominican household is 3.7 people, household income below RD$16,000 a month should be considered as poverty, and below RD$7,086 as extreme poverty.
www.diariolibre.com/economia/2012/08/10/i347366_trabajadores-gana-menos-rd10-mil-mes.html (http://www.diariolibre.com/economia/2012/08/10/i347366_trabajadores-gana-menos-rd10-mil-mes.html)
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