{"id":123751,"date":"2019-03-11T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=123751"},"modified":"2019-03-12T01:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:35:32","slug":"salaries-take-a-big-chunk-of-government-expenditures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/11\/salaries-take-a-big-chunk-of-government-expenditures\/","title":{"rendered":"Salaries take a big chunk of government expenditures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Government-Salaries-Diario-Libre-e1552322738964.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123800\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The payment of salaries and debt was almost a third of the total government expenditures registered in January 2019, when these hit RD$14.62 billion, according to information published by the Information System on Financial Management. (SIGEF). This compares to RD$12.7 billion in January 2018, a 15% increase. In general, public expenditures totaled in January 2019 RD$53.9 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government wage spending will be significantly up as of April 2019.  According to current salary levels, wages will increase by 95.4%, 10% and 5%. Debt payments were 25.4% of the total, or RD$13.7 billion. This means that for every RD$100 the government spent, RD$52.50 went to pay wages and interest on the Non-Financial Public Sector Debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/pago-de-salarios-representa-casi-30-del-gasto-publico-PH12266889\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The payment of salaries and debt was almost a third of the total government expenditures registered in January 2019, when these hit RD$14.62 billion, according to information published by the Information System on Financial Management. (SIGEF). This compares to RD$12.7 billion in January 2018, a 15% increase. In general, public expenditures totaled in January 2019 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/11\/salaries-take-a-big-chunk-of-government-expenditures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123849,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123751\/revisions\/123849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}