The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of the Republic Argentina (INDEC) daily publishes different data on various aspects of the national economy, and today it announced a positive one related to the salaries of Argentines. According to what the Argentine News Agency (NA) could find out, INDEC announced through its official X account that the salary index rose 1.6% in the last month of 2025. 'The salary index rose 1.6% in December 2025 compared to the previous month and 38.2% year-on-year,' is the verbatim communication on X, accompanied by a graph that breaks down each of the percentage variations of December 2025 compared to the previous month of the same year, that is, November. The total salary index for monthly percentage variation was 1.6% in the Christmas month, while the year-on-year marked 38.2%. How did each sector do in terms of salaries in December 2025? Private (registered) sector: Monthly variation: 2.5%; Year-on-year variation: 28.7%. Public sector: Monthly variation: 1.0%; National monthly variation: 1.1%; Year-on-year variation: 28.9%. Private unregistered sector: Monthly variation: 0.1%; Year-on-year variation: 87.9%. Registered sector: Year-on-year variation: 28.8%; Monthly variation: 2.0%. The weighting numbers for the base period in each sector were: Private registered sector: 50.16%; Public sector: 29.91%; Private unregistered sector: 19.93%.
