Adequate employment in Lima is maintained but not restored to pre-pandemic levels.

According to the latest report from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics, a total of 5,124,400 Peruvians were employed in Lima in the first three months of the year.ERI).

However, only 54.3% had a suitable job, equivalent to about 3 million 5200 workers. Although this is progress compared to other months, there is still adequate employment for 69,200 people less than before the pandemic.

At the same time, 38.3% were part-timei.e. working less than 35 hours and earning less than the minimum wage of SGD 1025 per month.

INEI indicates that out of every 100 people in the economically active population, 93 are employed and 7 are actively looking for work. Of the total number of workers, 54 are underemployed and 38 are employed part-time.

Which workers receive less than the minimum wage?

Only in the case of workers who earn less than minimum remunerationIt is estimated that more than 1,655,000 people have experienced this situation.

Of the total number of underemployed population in terms of income, 58.2% are women and 41.8% of the employed are men.

Similarly, one in ten income-based underemployed workers to some extent education primary or lower level of education, while just over half of the part-time workers (52.9%) have a secondary education.

To a lesser extent, some of these workers have non-university higher education (18.7%) and higher education (186.7%).

At present, most of these workers with low incomes, they work mainly in the service sector, and then in the trade sector. To a lesser extent, they also work in the manufacturing and construction sectors.

Average income in Lima

While progress in the labor market is still slow, the median income of workers in metropolitan Lima is S$1,840.9 per month.

Men in the capital come to have income SGD 2,067.8 per month on average, and SGD 1,572 for women, indicating that working women earn 76.1% of what men earn.

Currently, until the first quarter of the year, the highest incomes are among the population with higher education, which earns 2.7% times more than workers with primary education or below the educational level.