Employees share which are the lowest paid jobs in Mexico

• Through a video on social networks, some of the multinational companies who offer uncompetitive salaries and barely above the minimum wage were questioned.

• Companies like McDonald’s and Oxxo are the protagonists of this video, which shows the average salary of a worker.

• The minimum wage in Mexico is currently the highest in 34 years, rising from $141.70 to $172.87 pesos a day, a total of $5,255 pesos a month per worker.

Some of the best known companies in Mexico are also some of those that they offer the lowest paid jobs in the country, according to the testimonies of the workers themselves.

In the same way, specialized studies indicate that a large part of the population prefers those jobs in which the competitive salaries and responsible treatment of employees.

Employees share which are the lowest paid jobs in Mexico

A user of social networks shared through a video the lowest paid wages in Mexico. In some of the cases, several of Mexico’s best-known brands appeared, such as Oxxo, La Comer and McDonald’s. Of course, these testimonials might reflect only what is paid in some franchises and only in some positions, so it is not clear if it is generalized.

However, if we look at portals like Indeedwe can see how some of the vacancies, for example of the Oxxo brandare offered between 5 thousand and 6 thousand pesos.

Here are some of the brands shown in the video:

• Zara: the employee indicates that she is paid in a fortnightly format of four thousand pesos each, approximately 266 pesos.
• McDonald’s: the interviewee points out that she earns 23.60 pesos per hour, so a full 8-hour day would be equivalent to 190 pesos.
• La Comer: a brand employee points out that he earns 180 pesos a day.
• Oxxo: in the Mexican brand, says a cashier, you earn regarding 130 pesos daily.
• Pemex: a gas station worker, as mentioned, earns around 200 pesos a day with everything and tips.
• Farmacias Guadalajara: here, the employee points out that she earns regarding 6,400 pesos a month, that is, regarding 213 pesos a day.

This is the video shared by the user:

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As a result of this, the comments did not waitas many people even ironically pointed out that “the price of roast chicken is worth 8 hours of work for many people”.

This is what netizens commented:

“The only one that is not true is the gas dispatcher, they earn very well,” henrrychb

“And to think that a roast chicken is worth 8 hours of work for many people” giovannamurillo026

“And it’s a shame that the worst low-paid jobs are in multi-million dollar companies, many of them international,” historianmx

“They want to pay me $5,000 a month with a bachelor’s degree,” Daniel Lopez

“Me, seeing the tremendous demand that can come to Oxxo for not paying even the minimum wage,” ALee Navarro

Salary difference in Mexico

The wage gap in Mexico and low wages have been important topics of discussion in Mexico. In fact, in Mexico, most workers earn very low wages, and according to data from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment, published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)from 2021, 3.25 million Mexicans do not even receive income for the work they do.

Furthermore, the same study reveals that only 13.61 million people earn income of up to one minimum wage; while there are 19.94 million who receive labor income between one and two minimum wages per month. The foregoing means that, at the end of 2021, 65 percent of those who have an occupation in the country, obtain a maximum of two minimum wages per day, which according to what is established by the Conasami has a value of 172.87 Mexican pesos per day.

Another study called ‘Trends in the Work Environment in Mexico 2018 (TELM)’developed by Kelly Services, revealed at the time that, when asked “what would your company have to do to make you feel more loyal to it?”50 percent of those surveyed indicated that they would have to pay more competent salaries.

Mexico, therefore, is in a great imbalance, so there is still a long way to go towards a smaller wage gap; Companies should take note of this if they want to avoid job rotation.

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