{"id":232357,"date":"2025-03-06T07:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=232357"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:27:22","slug":"minimum-wage-hikes-do-not-impact-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/06\/minimum-wage-hikes-do-not-impact-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage hikes do not impact inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ellen-Pe\u0301rez-Ducy-Diario-Libre.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232398\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ellen-Pe\u0301rez-Ducy-Diario-Libre.png 744w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ellen-Pe\u0301rez-Ducy-Diario-Libre-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Ellen P\u00e9rez Ducy \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Economist Ellen Perez Ducy writes in Diario Libre on 6 March 2025 that the minimum wage raises have had little impact on inflation over the past decades. The Abinader administration recently announced a gradually phased in 20% minimum wage rise for non-sectorized private sector workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She reports that the non-sectorized private worker minimum wage is as of March 2025 US$446.6 for large companies, US$409.4 for medium-sized companies and US$274.3 for small companies. She says the amounts are double the nominal minimum wage in 2011, for a 41% real increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She mentions that past increases in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021 took place at a time when inflation was stable at around 4.39% and expects this to be the same this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/columnistas\/2025\/03\/05\/el-salario-minimo-y-la-inflacion\/3022503\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 March 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Ellen Perez Ducy writes in Diario Libre on 6 March 2025 that the minimum wage raises have had little impact on inflation over the past decades. The Abinader administration recently announced a gradually phased in 20% minimum wage rise for non-sectorized private sector workers. She reports that the non-sectorized private worker minimum wage is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/06\/minimum-wage-hikes-do-not-impact-inflation\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232357"}],"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=232357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232399,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232357\/revisions\/232399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}