As established in Article 33 and Transitory XI of the Disability, Old-Age and Death Insurance (IVM) Regulations, on January 1, 2015, an increment in the contribution that salaried workers, employers and the State contribute each month comes into effect. to the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS).

Increment in the contribution percentages

The total contribution of the three parts corresponds to the 8% of the wage, but as of Thursday, January 1 it will reach 8.50% (for a total adjustment of 0.50%). This means that employers will see they payroll cost increase, while for workers it will be synonymous of mayor retention of their salary.

From 2015 on employers will cancel 5.08% of the wage instead of 4.92%; employees 2.84% instead of 2.67%; and the State 0.58% instead of 0.41%.

As for the total contribution that employers and workers make each month to the CCSS health regime, it will be:

• Workers: their monthly fee will increase from 17% to 9.34%
• Employers: their contribution will increase from 17% to 26.33%

Staggered increases until 2035

The IVM Insurance Regulations provides automatic increases every five years, that rule from 2009 until January 1, 2035, when the percentage to be paid by employers, employees and the State, will reach 10.50% of each wage.

The CCSS established the increment in the contribution back in 2005 as a way of ensuring the proper functioning of the regime that had, at June 2012, 1.379.961 active contributors.

Here you have the historical increments:

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