More than 1,150 employers And almost 4,000 workers They stopped quoting last June In the Dominican Social Security System (SDSS), a fall that returned the number of employers at the level recorded in October 2024.
The most recent data of the Social Security Treasury (TSS) show that during the sixth month of this year the amount of employers It fell to 106,021 from 107,177 registered in May, representing an absolute reduction of 1,156 business owners or companies.
The indicator maintained a constant growth from May 2024when the treasury registered 103,300 employers quotes
Although the number of employers It was reduced in June, in relation to the last eight months, when compared to the same period of the year, an absolute increase of 2,188 is still visualized employers.
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Between January and June of this year, the Dominican economy had an interannual expansion of 2.4 %, registering in the sixth month of 2025 a growth of 1.1 %, results that, according to the Central Bank, among other things, “were conditioned to the context of uncertainty and global liquidity conditions, which have affected the performance of private investment.”
The economic slowdown that the country suffered in the first half of 2025 caused the number of employers that quotes in the TSS It was also harmed, registering a reduction 602 employersgoing from 106,623 in January of this year to those mentioned 106,021.
On the geographical distribution of employersthe report of the Social Security Treasury states that provinces more They are: the National District (35,222), Santo Domingo (17,013), Santiago (16,571), La Altagracia (4,716) and La Vega (4,324).
Among the five demarcations they add the 73.4 % of total employers that quoted a last June In the SDSS.
Less workers
The fall in the amount of employers It has also translated into a reduction in the number of contributing workers to the SDSS.
The data of the TSS They reflect that in June this year 2,383,347 employees They quoted the Social Security System, a number that represents a decline of 3,923 in relation to the 2,387,270 registered in May.
However, in the document the Treasury clarify that “contributing workers“The employees registered in the TSS at the date of extraction of the data, because they vary according to the delinquency of those employers that do not make the payment.
However, despite the fall suffered from May to June, when this last month is compared with January 2025, a period in which 2,357,357 were recorded workers contributors, an increase in 25,990 employees.
Salary mass and average salary
Despite the fall in the amount of employers and employeesthe quotable salary mass He had a light increase of 332.1 million pesos between May and June this yearfrom 89,216.9 million to 89,549 million pesos during that period.
However, when comparing it with the quotable salary mass January, when it was 84,711.2 million pesos, the Increase at the close of the first semester of 2025 was 4,837.8 million pesos, according to the report of the Social Security Treasury.
Similarly, between January and June this year The average quotable salary recorded an increase of 1,638 pesos, from 35,934.8 in early 2025 to 37,572.8 in the sixth month of the current.
