{"id":6974,"date":"2004-06-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/some-sample-wages\/"},"modified":"2004-06-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T01:43:56","slug":"some-sample-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/06\/02\/some-sample-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Some sample wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Free zone manufacturing companies pay new workers RD$3,561, or about US$75, a month. In December of 2002, at an exchange rate of RD$18 to US$1, a worker earned almost US$200. In bars and hotels, minimum wages range from RD$3,975 to RD$2,560 depending on the size of the business. Private watchmen are paid RD$4,160 or US$84 a month. In the depressed area of the frontier, where special incentives exist for companies to invest in free zones, the minimum wage is just RD$1,690, which is just 47.5% of what is paid to workers in other free zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free zone manufacturing companies pay new workers RD$3,561, or about US$75, a month. In December of 2002, at an exchange rate of RD$18 to US$1, a worker earned almost US$200. In bars and hotels, minimum wages range from RD$3,975 to RD$2,560 depending on the size of the business. Private watchmen are paid RD$4,160 or US$84 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/06\/02\/some-sample-wages\/\" 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":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974"}],"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=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}