That benefit alone is worth 50,00+ per monthMy brother on law gets 34,000 per month.
Screw your silly ideas everyone on the legal side is so poor, he earns more than half of what I do, and I don't get to shoot tigres every day.
How is that enough to feed a family, live in a non-****ty area, put your kids through a good school, pay for dental care every 6 months, and the occasional trips to the doctor every 3 months? It's not. So he's poor and needs to chase a commission.
80 percent of Dominican have a salary of 10,000 pesos or less, another 10 % are under 30,000 per month. At 34,000 I'm sure he can manage quite fine.
Are you sure about these figures?
Are you sure about these figures?
It's not enough that's for sure. A cop makes between 4 and 5K's a month. That's barely enough for groceries alone. How about rent, utilities, medical, clothing etc.How is that enough to feed a family, live in a non-****ty area, put your kids through a good school, pay for dental care every 6 months, and the occasional trips to the doctor every 3 months? It's not. So he's poor and needs to chase a commission.
It's not enough that's for sure. A cop makes between 4 and 5K's a month. That's barely enough for groceries alone. How about rent, utilities, medical, clothing etc.
No wonder they take bribes, steal, sell dope, pimp out girls or whatever they can to make ends meet. The guilty party: The Gov. Any essential employee makes crap while the politicos fill their pockets. A friend of mine, MD works at a public clinic in the campo. Makes less than 10 G's a month. He often pays for the medication he gives away to the poor. He is looking for a part time job. His wife has to work as a maid to help out. Yet the Gov. brags about how well the country is doing while getting loans to add to their allready full pockets.
Most earn under RD$10K
Barely 13.5% of the country's 1.2 million workers earn salaries above RD$25,000, while 57% earn less than RD$10,000. Only 174,047 employees earn more than RD$25,000 and most earn less than RD$10,000, a total of 736,208 employees. According to a financial report on the Dominican social security system from the Social Security Treasury, the country has 1,290,581 employees registered as of 31 December 2010. In March 2008 64.7% of employees earned less than RD$10,000 and 8.8% received salaries above RD$25,000.
According to Diario Libre, if only 13.5% are earning more than RD$25,000, this means that 86.5% of workers are getting salaries between zero and RD$25,000. This is why most workers do not have to pay and income taxes. According to the data from the TSS, 200,622 employees, equal to 15.5%, earn between RD$10,000 and RD$15,000, while 103,802 employees, equal to 8% receive salaries of between RD$15,000 and RD$20,000. Employees earning between RD$20,000 and RD$25,000 make up some 75,902, or 5.9%.
In March 2008, workers who earned between zero and RD$10,000 represented 64.7%, and those who earned the most represented 8.8%. People earning between zero and RD$10,000 totaled 64.7%, but in 2010 the percentage dropped by 7.7%, while the numbers of those who earned more than RD$25,000 increased by 4.7%, going from 8.8% in 2008 to 13.5% in 2010.
LOL!!!!
Robert take this under consideration:
Try and hire a Dominican worker to clean your pool, backyard or paint you home for RD$10,000 and let me know how many "vulgaridades" he ends up telling you... LOL!!!
Dominicans DON'T report their earnings 100% to the tax system here. You would have to be a fool to pay into the pockets of so many corrupt officials and duties and get little to nothing in returns. 99% of employers report the low ball wages earned by employees, all the whilst paying a cash payment added to that total. I know so because WE all do it.
Just like Dominican taxi drivers, bodegas, supermarkets, etc... Don't report their actual income to the IRS in the US...
This is the kind of figures that misleads so many foreigners to "think" and firmly "believe" that they can live like kings on a standard retirement income here, only to find out on the cruel joke they got fooled into, based on these figures above offered.
Official and reported wages in the DR are a running joke behind doors, the only ones that believe all that "cheap" and "plentiful" Dominican pool of workers at those wage ranges, are the same ones that believe that Haitians living in the DR are pretty much Dominicans.
If you believe these numbers then you have never employed Dominicans in the DR but Haitians....
LOL!! 10,000??? LOL! LOL!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!
While you are correct about Dominicans not reporting their true earnings to the government, and employees paying bonuses instead of higher salary it is also true that most make less than the 30,000. My wife's cousin son works full-time at Wendy's and makes around 13,000, his sister works as a bi-lingual secretary for an import-export business and makes slightly more. Both are fluently bilingual. The majority of teachers make less than 20,000.
Sadly reality in the DR is that you get pay what you're worth only. The cases above are an example of lacking a good education/networking background during formation as a professional in the DR.
I'm not trying to paint the sky as rosy here, but the reality is that reported wages and real wages are too distanced to be even considered in any calculations for a potential investor here. That's unless they plan and know beforehand they'll be employing Haitians using Dominican Cedulas bought in the market in place.
There are numbers then there's reality... If you live in the DR and say that RD$10,000 pesos buys you a real Dominican worker, then you must live in some alternate world with a mirror DR in it...
A good friend is an Orthopedic Resident in a public hospital in Santo Domingo and makes $29,000.It's not enough that's for sure. A cop makes between 4 and 5K's a month. That's barely enough for groceries alone. How about rent, utilities, medical, clothing etc.
No wonder they take bribes, steal, sell dope, pimp out girls or whatever they can to make ends meet. The guilty party: The Gov. Any essential employee makes crap while the politicos fill their pockets. A friend of mine, MD works at a public clinic in the campo. Makes less than 10 G's a month. He often pays for the medication he gives away to the poor. He is looking for a part time job. His wife has to work as a maid to help out. Yet the Gov. brags about how well the country is doing while getting loans to add to their allready full pockets.