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    Janice
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    What is the going hourly wage or monthly wage for gardeners and house-keepers

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    Andrew
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    Please see the following article:

    [url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/3450.cfm]Minimum Salaries in Costa Rica 2012[/url].

    The comprehensive [url=http://www.mtss.go.cr/]Spanish El Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social website is here[/url].

    For a “[i]jardinero[/i]” you would be expected to pay c8,749.38 colones per day (about US$17) plus the usual CAJA contributions if he/she is an employee rather than an independent company hired by the job … .

    Does that help?

    Scott

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    VictoriaLST
    Member

    Up near Lake Arenal, we pay 1,200 colones an hour for our gardener. Our housekeeper asked for 1,000 colones an hour but we give her 5,000 for 4 hours – she is fantastic – and works twice a week.

    As is true with people everywhere, our housekeeper and gardener appreciate small courtesies. When we found out she was walking over a mile to get here – on dangerous roads – we decided to pick up and drop off our housekeeper. We also paid her for the two days she did not work while we were in the US for a week.

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    waggoner41
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    [quote=”Janice”]What is the going hourly wage or monthly wage for gardeners and house-keepers[/quote]

    The housekeeper (Empleada Domestica) monthly wage as of 01/2012 is 139,558.75 colones. I am assuming that covers a 5 1/2 day workweek which works out to about 875 colones per hour.
    Scott provided the latest for the Jardinero (crear jardines).

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