Salaries increase 28.8% in March

Salaries gained 28.8 percent in March compared to the same month last year, while it accumulated a 3.9 percent increase during the first quarter of 2012, according to the Indec national statistics bureau.

This is a result of a 1.45 percent raise of the salaries of the private sector, 2.4 percent of the unregistered jobs and 1.3 percent of the public sector’s wages.

The official data also stated that salaries increased 1.6 percent against the previous month.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald