El Salvador recently increased its minimum wage for the minimum salaries, benefiting workers in the following sectors: commerce, industrial, services, maquilas of confection and textile, farming, coffee, cotton, sugar cane and coffee harvesting, and seasonal agricultural industries.
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, SERVICES, TEXTILE AND CONFECTION MAQUILAS SECTORS
Workers from the service and commerce sector will earn US$5.81USD for an ordinary workday; or $0.73 USD per hour; or $174.30 USD monthly.
Industrial workers (except textile and confection workers in maquilas) will earn $5.68 USD for each ordinary workday; or $0.71 USD per hour; or $170.40 monthly.
Textile and confection maquila workers will earn $5.24 USD for an ordinary workday; or $0.65 USD per hour, or $157.20 USD monthly.
FARMING SECTOR
These workers will earn $2.72 USD for an ordinary workday; or $0.34 USD per hour.
HARVESTING OF COFFEE; SUGAR CANE AND COTTON.
COFFEE HARVESTING
Workers hired on the basis of unit time, will be paid as an ordinary day labored at $2.97 USD or $0.37 USD per hour. If they are hired by the amount of harvest, they will be paid $0.59 USD per each arroba of coffee collected.
Ten cents of dollar (US$ 0.10) will be multiplied to the total of arrobas recollected on a week.
COTTON HARVESTING
Workers hired on the basis of unit time, will be paid as an ordinary day labored at $2.27 USD or $0.28 USD per hour; and cero point cero twenty three cents of dollar (US$ 0.023) per each pound of cotton.
Thirty eight cents of dollars (US$0.38) will be multiplied to the total of quintales (100 pounds) of cotton recollected on a week.
SUGAR CANE HARVESTING
Workers hired on the basis of time unit will be paid as an ordinary day labored at $2.52 USD or $0.32 USD per hour; and $1.26 USD per each ton of arrobas recollected.
Twenty one cents of dollar (US$ 0.21) will be multiplied to the total of ton of sugar cane recollected on a week.
SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES
Seasonal coffee, cotton and sugar cane manufacturing workers will earn the following minimum salaries for each ordinary workday:
A) Coffee: $3.93 USD or $0.49 USD per hour.
B) Cotton and sugar cane: $2.87 USD or $ 0.36 USD per hour.