He December 18th is the deadline to complete the payment of the bonus for the domestic worker in Argentina. Employees are expected to have this extra money to cover the costs of the New Year’s holiday. Therefore, it is very important that employers correctly calculate the additional annual salary (SAC) and pay it on time.
The annual additional salary (Annual Complementary Salary, SAC), popularly known as a bonus, represents a fundamental labor law It also reaches employees of private homes in Argentina. With the payment periods starting in 2025, it is crucial for employers and employees to know, above all, how to carry out the calculation correctly to avoid errors.
Below you will find practical and comprehensive instructions on how to do this Process the bonus in a legal and transparent manner in the second half of 2025.
When is the deadline for paying out the December bonus?
The bonus is divided into two installments or semesters. For staff in private households (domestic workers, nannies, landlords, etc.) the same payment terms apply as in the general employee regime.
- First semester: The deadline ends on June 30, 2025.
- Second semester 2025: The payment deadline ends on December 18, 2025.
This means that Thursday, December 18, is the deadline for the employer to pay the second installment of the 2025 bonus.
However, there is a grace period for all employers in Argentina during which, if they have not complied with the law and completed the SAC on December 18, they have four additional business days to do so without legal recourse or sanction..
So anyone who has not paid the December SAC to the domestic worker on time can do so by Wednesday, December 24th this year.
How to pay out the bonus
An important fact is the payment of the bonus must be registered with a receipt and must in cash or by bank transferwhich are recorded in the corresponding monthly statement.
Formula for calculating the bonus
The calculation of the additional annual salary (SAC) is based on the law Best salary the employee earned in the corresponding semester. This means that the basis for calculation is the wage for which the employee worked, and not just the wage that she received within the period.
In this case, it is very likely that the employer will have the task of estimating the salary of the domestic worker in December, since in this case the last salary increase announced by the National Commission for Work in Private Houses (CNTCP) will be completed in their December salary, which will be 1.3% compared to the previous month. 2025 and charge half of this amount to open the SAC account.
To do this, it is important to know the basic salary table for each category, which applies from December 1 and is published by the Union of Auxiliary Workers in Private Houses.
Supervision
- With withdrawal: $3,783.33 per hour and $471,961.09 per month
- Without payout: $4,143.70 per hour and $525,711.97 per month
employees for specific tasks
- With withdrawal: $3,581.79 per hour and $438,478.51 per month
- No retreat: $3,926.82 per hour and $488,101.03 per month
Homemade
Always unpaid: $3,383.53 per hour and $427,806.54 per month
Help and care for people
- With revocation: $3,383.53 per hour and $427,806.54 per month
- Without payout: $3,783.33 per hour and $4,76,745.56 per month
Employees for general tasks
- With withdrawal: $3,135.98 per hour and $384,722.14 per month
- Without payout: $3,383.53 per hour and $427,806.54 per month
These are the legal minimum wages for domestic workers registered in Argentina, but employers who apply best practices with them pay above these values and also cover travel costs. And if a worker’s duties fall into more than one category, she must be placed in the category with the best compensation..
When calculating the bonus, additional remuneration for domestic workers is taken into account in addition to the basic salary, which are as follows:
- Additionally for seniority: the equivalent of 1% for each year of service of the employee in her employment relationship with the same employer on the monthly salaries in force at the time of liquidation. The length of service for the purposes of this supplement is calculated from September 1, 2020.
- Surcharge for unfavorable location: For employees performing duties in the provinces of La Pampa, Rio Negro, Chubut, Neuquén, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands or the Patagones District of Buenos Aires Province, an additional adverse area fee of 30% will be charged on top of the minimum salaries established for each category.
And then there are those over time, These are those that the employee does outside of her normal working day:
- 50% surcharge for working hours from Monday to Friday and until 1 p.m. on Saturday.
- 100% surcharge ((Double shift) if overtime is worked on Saturdays after 1 p.m., Sundays and public holidays.
Once you have received the deserves the best compensation in the last semester (from July to December inclusive) with all payments additionally which are credited towards the bonus if the domestic worker worked for the same employer throughout the semester, Divide this number by 2 to get the SAC for December 2025.
- bonus = higher monthly remuneration for the 2nd semester / 2nd
And in the event that the employee has not performed any services throughout the semester, a proportional bonus is paid in proportion to the hours worked. This is how the account becomes
- Proportional bonus =(highest monthly salary of the 2nd semester/12) x months worked
Finally, it should be recalled that, although in these months domestic workers in Argentina receive an additional bonus corresponding to the weekly hours worked during the month, this is not taken into account when calculating the SAC since it is not remunerated. The half bonus for December then results from the basic salary of the corresponding category, overtime and additional hours.
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