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Originally Posted by sweetpea0928
$300.00 is a lot to a Dominican. You are VERY gracious. The average salary is more around 3 thousand pesos and that is not just for cane workers. It is for people who work in restaurants, some teachers at public schools and banqueras to name a few. If you figure that it takes around 30 pesos right now to make a dollar then your cousin is currently making the equivalent of about 133 dollars. I just got back in July from living there and I was making 20,000 pesos monthly. This was nothing considering that I had to change my pesos to dollars as I was coming back to the United states. However, to most Dominicans there, I was considered "rich". I must also add that my husband who has been at his job for 6 years, works at least 14 hours daily only makes 7000 pesos and he STILL (he is still in the DR) sends money to his family in the campo.
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Thank you. So based on your firgures, and two in the household, we are sending about what the average Dominican makes. Two in the house, times $3000RD = $6000 RD, or $300 Cdn. I just realized that you are talking USD, but I'm Canadian, and it's more like $20 RD to the dollar. And that really pays for nothing. I would have to disagree, though, that the avg Dominican makes $3000. I know animacion staff at the CM hotel who now make around $7000 RD, so I am assuming wages all over have gone up, as a result of rapidly increased inflation. As noted above, my cousin, who is a worker in a beach store, makes $4000 RD, and her husband, a cook at the CM, makes $7000 RD. The only ones making less than $3000 RD, IMO, someone that lives there can correct me if I'm wrong, are the sugar cane workers. We all know Dominicans won't do that job, it's nearly 100% Haitian.
Here's a thread that also supports my numbers:
What are people getting paid?