He Dominican labor market reached the 5,168,878 workers between October and December 2025, for an interannual increase of 2.3% -equivalent to 117,948 new employees- compared to the fourth quarter of 2024 -in which 5,050,930 workers were registered-, according to statistics from the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD).
Of these new employees, 72.7% (85,764) correspond to formal workerswhile informal workers represented the remaining 27.3% (32,184), which placed informality at 54.2% in that period, 0.6 percentage points less than the 54.8% registered between October and December 2024.
With these results, the dominican economy registered an increase of 133,915 net workers on average throughout last year when compared to the average for the four quarters of 2024.
The formally employed represented 98.5% (131,901) of the net new employees. In this way, the informality rate in the country stood at an average of 54.1%.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the informality rate was 54.2%, 4.7 percentage points lower than the historical maximum of 58.9% experienced in the COVID-19 pandemic and 0.6 percentage points below the 54.8% in October – December 2024. This data places the country above the median in Latin America and the Caribbean (47%), where informality continues to be one of the most persistent challenges.
The occupation in dominican economy has shown a sustained growthhighlighted the monetary entity.
This is explained “by the increase in formal workers In recent years, that is, salaried who have access to the benefits of social security via their occupation and the independents whose productive unit has a National Taxpayer Registry”.
