Employee Benefits Expense (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS EXPENSE.

Summary of Employee Expenses

The detail of employee expenses for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, is as follows:

	For the years ended December 31,
	2021	2020	2019
Employee Benefits Expense	ThCh$	ThCh$	ThCh$
Wages and salaries	(129,759,535)	(117,220,406)	(109,101,737)
Post-employment benefit obligations expense	(1,099,554)	(2,132,231)	(3,153,395)
Social security and other contributions	(13,059,172)	(12,346,828)	(14,334,587)
Other employee expenses	(19,426,893)	(5,527,283)	(3,015,237)
Total Employee Benefits Expenses	(163,345,154)	(137,226,748)	(129,604,956)

(*) During 2021, this item included ThCh$ 17,602,579 from restructuring provisions and expenses associated with the Group’s 2021-2024 digitization strategy. This enables the adoption of new work and operation models and demands new skills and knowledge to make processes even more efficient.