{"id":244711,"date":"2025-12-01T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=244711"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:06:24","slug":"government-payroll-grows-to-777000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/12\/01\/government-payroll-grows-to-777000\/","title":{"rendered":"Government payroll grows to 777,000"},"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\/12\/SISALRIL-Diario-Libre-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244765\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SISALRIL-Diario-Libre-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SISALRIL-Diario-Libre-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SISALRIL-Diario-Libre-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SISALRIL-Diario-Libre-1536x863.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SISALRIL-Diario-Libre.png 1780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently 777,525 persons on the government\u2019s payroll according to the Superintendent of Labor Risks and Health (Sisalril). That number represents a 5.2% increase over the 2024 number for September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year, there have been 22,500 persons added to the payroll, a 3% increase according to the Sisalril numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past ten years, over a quarter of a million people have become employed by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, just between July and September there was a 2.3% increase in the people on the government payroll. The year\u2019s end payroll is expected to show a 14% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payrolls for the different government agencies, ministries and departments now total 23.4% of the total trillion plus budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest numbers represent an increase of about 121,000 new employees since the Abinader administration took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Diario Libre newspaper points out, more government employees means less money for investment in projects that would improve or create new jobs in the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/finanzas\/2025\/11\/26\/la-nomina-publica-alcanza-los-778-mil-trabajadores-en-rd\/3351379\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 December 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently 777,525 persons on the government\u2019s payroll according to the Superintendent of Labor Risks and Health (Sisalril). That number represents a 5.2% increase over the 2024 number for September. So far this year, there have been 22,500 persons added to the payroll, a 3% increase according to the Sisalril numbers. Over the past &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/12\/01\/government-payroll-grows-to-777000\/\" 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\/244711"}],"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=244711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244766,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244711\/revisions\/244766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}