It is what it is in the DR regarding salary and government assistance. Broken, perhaps. Giving people the median salary> Unlikely to happen.
Median Salary
The median salary is 20,700 DOP per month, which means that half (50%) of the population are earning less than 20,700 DOP while the other half are earning more than 20,700 DOP. The median represents the middle salary value. Generally speaking, you would want to be on the right side of the graph with the group earning more than the median salary.
Percentiles
Closely related to the median are two values: the 25th and the 75th percentiles. Reading from the salary distribution diagram, 25% of the population are earning less than 11,600 DOP while 75% of them are earning more than 11,600 DOP. Also from the diagram, 75% of the population are earning less than 56,900 DOP while 25% are earning more than 56,900 DOP.
Now back to guesses on curfews.
Someone might want to fact check the "Median Salary" and teach the writer of the article the meaning of "Median".
Just to take an example
In a company, you have 5 salary levels: $3/hour, $5/hour, $7/hour, $9/hour $11/hour.
In this case, the "Median salary" is $7/hour
In the company you have 20 workers, 12 of them get paid $3/hour, 3 get paid $5/hour, 2 get paid $7/hour, 2 get paid $9/hour and 1 get paid $11/hour.
The statement that 50% of the workers get paid $7 or more and 50% gets paid less, is not true. As 5 of 20 (25%) gets paid $7 or more per hour and 15 (75%) gets paid less than $7.
Personally, the vast majority of the people that I know who are employed don't get paid any 20k per month. So I would rather guess that 75% or even more people earn less than 20k per month. So that makes you understand that be given 7500 per month to not work isn't actually that "bad" when those who get that assistance under "normal" conditions would only earn slightly more.
But of course during all this time I've always wondered how anybody here can survive with only about 10-15k per month.... But that's something else.