{"id":233632,"date":"2025-04-01T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=233632"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:12:18","slug":"minimum-wage-increases-start-on-1-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/minimum-wage-increases-start-on-1-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage increases start on 1 April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Aumento-salarial-el-Nuevo-Diario-1024x774.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233668\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Aumento-salarial-el-Nuevo-Diario-1024x774.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Aumento-salarial-el-Nuevo-Diario-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Aumento-salarial-el-Nuevo-Diario-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Aumento-salarial-el-Nuevo-Diario.png 1326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The minimum wage increases approved in February 2025 go into effect this Tuesday, 1 April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Wage Committee (CNS) had approved a 20% increase to minimum wages for the non-sectorized private employees. The increment is being applied in two stages: 12% in April and 8% in February 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately two million workers are benefiting from this wage boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breakdown of 2025 increment by company size:<br>\u2022 Large enterprises: A 20% increase would raise the minimum wage from RD$24,990 to RD$29,988 monthly.<br>\u2022 Medium-sized enterprises: Employees would see their minimum wage rise from RD$22,908 to RD$27,489.6 monthly.<br>\u2022 Small enterprises: The minimum wage would increase from RD$15,351 to RD$16,886 monthly.<br>\u2022 Micro enterprises: A 20% increment would lift the minimum wage from RD$14,161 to RD$16,993 monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional adjustments:<br>\u2022 Private security guards: Salaries increase from RD$20,527.50 to RD$26,633 monthly with the 20% hike.<br>\u2022 Agricultural workers: Daily wages rise to RD$714 for a 10-hour workday, up from the current RD$595 per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/gobierno-anuncia-aumento-salarial-de-20-al-sector-privado-no-sectorizado\">Presidency <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/aumento-salarial-sector-privado-no-sectorizado-es-a-partir-de-este-martes\/\">El Nuevo Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/03\/minimum-wage-hike-of-phased-in-20-approved\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 April 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum wage increases approved in February 2025 go into effect this Tuesday, 1 April 2025. The National Wage Committee (CNS) had approved a 20% increase to minimum wages for the non-sectorized private employees. The increment is being applied in two stages: 12% in April and 8% in February 2026. Approximately two million workers are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/minimum-wage-increases-start-on-1-april-2025\/\" 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\/233632"}],"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=233632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233670,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233632\/revisions\/233670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}