In the month of December, workers receive an additional salary, although this amount can also be calculated monthly.

This value is known as the thirteenth pay or Christmas bonus and is equal to the sum of all income from base pay, overtime, commissions and/or bonuses between December 1 and November 30, and the total value is He will divide it by twelve. Although it does not include vacations, reserve funds or travel expenses.

Who is not entitled to the thirteenth salary?

The fee was introduced 61 years ago, exactly on November 26, 1962 during the government of Carlos Julio Arosemen Monroy.

Initially, it was intended for members of the “Commission Funds” – current social insurance -, then it was extended to all workers through “Law 68-010” published in the Official Register no. 41 of October 29, 1968, with the fact that the fourteenth compensation is created.

The Siise portal states that this came into effect gradually for private workers (25% in 1962, 50% in 1963, 75% in 1964 and 100% starting in 1965), for civil servants it was effective from December 1963. and was paid in full starting in 1966.

What period is taken into account for the calculation of the thirteenth salary

In 1979 and 1992, the payment of the fifteenth and sixteenth wages was combined, which were eventually combined and included in the wages of private workers.

Ecuadorian public or private employees receive twelve salaries a year, with a thirteenth salary (received in December) originally awarded as a Christmas bonus; and a fourteenth salary (received in March on the Galapagos coast and in August in the Sierra-Amazon) to help parents as a bonus at the beginning of each school year.

Since 2015, monthly tithe payment. This procedure must be presented in writing to the employees in question during the first fifteen days of January, ie by January 15.