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Please see the following article:
[url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/3450.cfm]Minimum Salaries in Costa Rica 2012[/url].
The comprehensive [url=http://www.mtss.go.cr/]Spanish El Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social website is here[/url].
For a “[i]jardinero[/i]” you would be expected to pay c8,749.38 colones per day (about US$17) plus the usual CAJA contributions if he/she is an employee rather than an independent company hired by the job … .
Does that help?
Scott
Up near Lake Arenal, we pay 1,200 colones an hour for our gardener. Our housekeeper asked for 1,000 colones an hour but we give her 5,000 for 4 hours – she is fantastic – and works twice a week.
As is true with people everywhere, our housekeeper and gardener appreciate small courtesies. When we found out she was walking over a mile to get here – on dangerous roads – we decided to pick up and drop off our housekeeper. We also paid her for the two days she did not work while we were in the US for a week.
[quote=”Janice”]What is the going hourly wage or monthly wage for gardeners and house-keepers[/quote]
The housekeeper (Empleada Domestica) monthly wage as of 01/2012 is 139,558.75 colones. I am assuming that covers a 5 1/2 day workweek which works out to about 875 colones per hour.
Scott provided the latest for the Jardinero (crear jardines).
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