Salaries: private workers tied with inflation in January, but public and informal workers took the worst part. Prices rose 20.6% in January and private employees' salaries rose 20%.
But public employees had increases of only 12.1%. After a losing close in December 2023, at the beginning of 2024 salaries began to decline compared to inflation. The public sector lost 24.3%; the registered private sector, 13.9% and the unregistered private sector,. 36.7%.