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wages in DR
My gf takes home about 16,000/mo with tips. Works in the food service industry. She's clearly being ripped off on some of her tips by her managers(she gets them monthly instead of every day like we do in the US) but that's how things are done in the DR. Many in retail only make 6000/8000/10000/mo.
Abuses with tips occur here in the US too. I knew Mexican employees of a successful Mexican restaurant in my area that said that the owner(Mexicana) kept all the tips and used that to pay their wages. As they were illegals, she had them intimidated into accepting her thievery.
How so? I have a friend who owns a bar here in Santiago and I've personally seen him distributing the nights tips, on the nights I was there that is.
Exactly my point. Your friend is doing it right. But he's one guy. Like I said. Some do. Some don't.
AS i know women who works in a house as domestica in SD 6 days a week from 8;30 t0 6 pm a month get s 5,000 a month
A hardware store driver 8.000 pesos a month, and a sergeant in the military makes 11.000 pesos So thoses tourists can better understand life of the R.D. This is the situation in this 3th world banana country !!
A hardware store driver 8.000 pesos a month, and a sergeant in the military makes 11.000 pesos So thoses tourists can better understand life of the R.D. This is the situation in this 3th world banana country !!
We lived on the North Coast and my wife (girlfriend at the time) worked for while, before we had our son, 6 days a week for 4,500 pesos a month, no tips involved. It was a pretty sucky job and I finally told her to just quit, it wasn't worth it. We should have her visa in a few month and they will be here in the states with me. What blows my mind is every three months when I go back and we go shopping, we walk out after spending 3,000-4,000 pesos and really don't have much. A quick run to the super and it's 2000 pesos and we have 3-4 bags. It just goes to show you how hard it can be. Thank god for the fruit and veggie trucks coming through the barrio.
Of course I go to her moms just up the mountain and most everything we eat while there is grown on site, or very near. Mangos, avacados, yucca, oranges, bread fruit, bananas and free range chicken right outside the door. And that's how so many of them do it.
Of course I go to her moms just up the mountain and most everything we eat while there is grown on site, or very near. Mangos, avacados, yucca, oranges, bread fruit, bananas and free range chicken right outside the door. And that's how so many of them do it.
In SD it's almost impossible to find a domestica for 5,000 pesos a month working 6 days (besides being abusive). That starts at about 8,000. We are paying 9,500 for a sleep-in maid, monday till friday.
I had waitresses working at 6.000 a month and i was paying 500 pesos a day for construction labour, mixing concrete, pagnete, rod bar instalation ect...and i had people on line for the job !! Good food was included at lunch and breakfast.
I suppose things are different in 'el campo' (that s where you are right?) than in the capital and she probably made a lot more in tips than her salary, it s not a bad deal. What I see in places where I offer my (consulting) services that some employers use the legal 10% as a way to pay low salaries and the rest in a (sometimes very big) share of the 10%, even giving raises by raising the part they are getting of the 10%, in other words, I give you a raise by taking it away from your coworkers. And, bad for both employee and employer: guaranteeing a fixed amount in the legal 10% share. Which means that in a month with low sales, and the 10% doesnt reach the guaranteed amount, you will have extra expenses paying those employees besides their salary and their cut of the 10%.
Those are the middle and lower class with these wages. The rich in the Dominican Republic make millions of American dollars per year and 10 percent of them are rich. It really is sickening when I see people in designer clothes in brand new mercedes and BMW SUVs driving around in the DR. I will never forget the maid in my apartahotel crying and asking for 40 pesos and admitting to making about 4 dollars per day and being very hungry and eating sugar in the hotel kitch at times to try to eat with two kids at home with no money for school and an unemployed husband and sick while the rich dominican hotel owner shows up in her 100,000 dollar S class mercedes in Gucci clothes with a prada handbag and jewelry on and speaking in her dominican accent on her new iphone.
MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MANSION 800 MILLONES PASEO R?PIDO - YouTube
MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MANSION DE 800 MILLONES DE PESOS PPH - YouTube
Luxury Dream Mansion in Sosua - Dominican Republic - YouTube
while the richest 10% enjoys nearly 40% of GDP.
#69 Dominican Republic - Forbes.com
MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MANSION 800 MILLONES PASEO R?PIDO - YouTube
MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MANSION DE 800 MILLONES DE PESOS PPH - YouTube
Luxury Dream Mansion in Sosua - Dominican Republic - YouTube
while the richest 10% enjoys nearly 40% of GDP.
#69 Dominican Republic - Forbes.com