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Wages in Santiago
Office assistans in a law office make about $7,000 ($200 USD) to $10,000 ($300 USD)
in Santiago in Santo Domingo they make a bit more than that.
An office?s messange with his own moto will make about $9,000 ($270 USD) plus about $500 extra weekly for gas, a factory worker will make about 1,200 a week ($35 USD), a wachman will make about $10,000 to 12,000 a month, a motoconcho in Santiago will make about $300 to $500 pesos daily, a girl working in a banca (lotery bets) will make about $1,500 ($40 USD) every 2 weeks, plus a monthly bonus of about $1,000 ($35 UDS), a girl working in a supermarket will make about $7,000 to $8,500 a month with extra hours.
in Santiago in Santo Domingo they make a bit more than that.
An office?s messange with his own moto will make about $9,000 ($270 USD) plus about $500 extra weekly for gas, a factory worker will make about 1,200 a week ($35 USD), a wachman will make about $10,000 to 12,000 a month, a motoconcho in Santiago will make about $300 to $500 pesos daily, a girl working in a banca (lotery bets) will make about $1,500 ($40 USD) every 2 weeks, plus a monthly bonus of about $1,000 ($35 UDS), a girl working in a supermarket will make about $7,000 to $8,500 a month with extra hours.
This is a quote from Fabio Guzman a year or so ago.
"Here are the current minimum salaries:
RD$7,360.00/month - businesses worth more than RD$4M
RD$5,060.00/month - more than RD$2M but less than 4M
RD$4,485.00/month - below RD$2M
These minimums do not apply to certain industries such as tourism. The minimum salary for a hotel worker is RD$5,575.00/month."
"Here are the current minimum salaries:
RD$7,360.00/month - businesses worth more than RD$4M
RD$5,060.00/month - more than RD$2M but less than 4M
RD$4,485.00/month - below RD$2M
These minimums do not apply to certain industries such as tourism. The minimum salary for a hotel worker is RD$5,575.00/month."
A hair salon in Santiago will problably cost you about $50,000 (about $1500 USD), you figure about $25,000 pesos for equiment and supplies and about $15,000 to rent a commercial place, and to have it fix and painted.
Sounds so low. Can you break it down? Dont they all need a power plant for when there are no lights?
In high end salons I've known girls who earn RD$18,000 a month. But I am talking about very upscale ones here in SD which gives services to Naco and Piantini markets.
Buy the local newspapers like el Nacional or Listin Diario and in classifie section you will find stores adds, selling you a complete hair salon equipment and supplies to star for about $20,000 to $25,000 pesos (about $550 to $700 USD). Now you can still call the store go in person and them bargain with them, you?ll problably get it for about $19,000 pesos or so. I know this because for a while my wife was thinking about opening a hair salon in Santiago and we did all the reseach that was needed.
We would say that's la creme de la creme. As there is a salon in almost every corner here in the DR most won't make near that.
I was once told by a salon girl that she made 3-4k a week really hustling and getting decent tips. Must have been true cause I offered her a job telelmarketing in spanish for ~12k/mo and she preferred to stay at the salon.
I passed for this experience twelve years ago and only the emergency power generator, the smaller one to run a salon is 5000 Kilo watts, the cheapest mark that I could find in the market by the time it was a Bridge & Stration in Price smart store and it cost me 18,000. RD.
JJ