CAUTION: Salaries on the Loose!
53,000,000,000,000 colones ($ 107 million) will be distributed to 156,000 government employees as their annual aguinaldo. (The equivalent of one month’s salary paid as a Christmas bonus to employees in Costa Rica). In this distribution are covered all of the employees of all the ministries, the TSE (Supremo Election Tribunal), the Omsbudman’s Office, Comptroller General, Legislative Assembly y and the Judicial Branch.
Employees of INS (Insurance Institute), CCSS (Social Security), A y A (Water Works) and ICE (Power, Telecom & Light) are not included in the central government payout amount. The aguinaldo is calculated by taking the average of the last 12 month salaries for each employee.