Despite the long and difficult days of negotiations between the labor unions, businessmen and the National Government to establish a consensual increase in the minimum wage by 2025finally the adjustment to this figure ended up being established by decree, leaving it at 9.53%
This readjustment, effective from January 1, makes workers and companies ‘calculate’ how to distribute incomeconsidering factors such as pension and health discounts or the increase in the transportation subsidy.
(You can read: Work in Colombia: when will the working day be reduced in 2025).
By 2024, workers earned the minimum, earning 1,300,000 pesos, whose daily equivalent was 43,333 pesos, not including subsidies or withholdings.. It is worth mentioning that the increase implemented by the National Government will also be reflected in public services, tolls and some essential goods.
Comparison of minimum wages in Latin America.
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Minimum daily wage in 2025
During this new year, every worker who earns a minimum wage will receive a daily income of 47,450 pesos, that is, 4,117 pesos more compared to 2024without adding the transportation subsidy, equivalent to 200,000 pesos. With this help, the minimum daily wage would remain at 54,116 pesos.
(Further: Petro defends the increase in the UPC for 2025: ‘Did it seem like a little bit?’).
However, the increase has not ceased the concerns of different sectors of the labor market, as they assure that this increase is not enough to reduce the informality index in the country, whose latest data was 55.2%, corresponding to November of the year. past.
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