70% earn minimum wage

He job paid domestic pay salaries of hunger in Mexico and the women are the most affected, because 70% of them survive on one minimum wage a month, without benefits, revealed the Inegi.

This means that 70 out of every 100 domestic workers They barely receive seven thousand 467.9 pesos a month, for sweep, trapper, lavar, iron, cook, tender camasclean and attend to children, older adults y sick from casa where they work.

On the occasion of International Domestic Workers Daywhich is commemorated on March 30, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported that 67.8% of the people employed in said activity –women y men– they earn up to minimum wage.

It indicated that 24.2% of the employees of the home perceives more than one and up to two minimum wage and the luckiest, who only represent 2.2%, obtain more than two mini-salaries.

According to these figures the job domestic in general offers a income minimum of 248.93 pesos per day and a maximum of 497.86 pesos per day, which must be reached to comer, tickets, services y bills personal.

“In Mexico there are 2.5 million people employed in paid domestic work; 95% work in informal conditions.”

— Inegi

Domestic workers salary

The Inegi highlighted that the workers domestic are the most punished in income, since 70 out of every 100 (70.4%) receive a maximum of one salary minimum per month, once morest 43.5% of men with the same salary.

It indicated that only 23 out of every 100 employees (22.8% of the total) earn more than one and up to two minisalariosa figure that contrasts with the rate of 37.1% of workers who are located at the same income level.

While one in every 100 women dedicated to domestic work (1%) receives more than two and up to three minimum wages, compared to a rate of 7.9% of men who earn the same salary.