Mexico’s federal government pays many of its employees bonuses for punctuality. In 2018, Mexico News Daily reported, citing data that El Universal obtained through transparency requests, that federal employees received 40.7 billion pesos in punctuality bonuses between 2012 and 2017. Most of it went to staff of the social security institute IMSS.
In 2017, El Universal’s English edition had given a different figure: 34.7 billion pesos for the years 2013 to 2016. The two counts cover different periods.