Are you a dependent worker, waiting for your thirteenth salary, and you don’t know exactly how much you should get?

How to calculate what you will get in the thirteenth salary

This allowance, also known as the Christmas allowance, corresponds to one twelfth of the income you received between December 1 last year and November 30 this year. However, you should not include vacations, reserve funds or travel expenses. Then add up all the compensations and divide by twelve. Are you still having a hard time?

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The Department of Labor maintains a calculator on its website. In this way, the exact value to be received can be easily checked on a case-by-case basis.

Below we show you step by step:

In this section you will find a calculator from the Ministry of Labour. Image: screenshot

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

In this example, we calculate last year’s base salary with values ​​received from January to November 2023. Image: screenshot
At the end of the calculation, you will get the value that you will receive for the thirteenth salary by applying Articles 111 and 82 of the Labor Law. Image: screenshot

This benefit, whose payment period expires on December 24 each year, was introduced 61 years ago, precisely on November 26, 1962, during the government of Carlos Julio Arosemen Monroy. (F)