45 wage for this activity established by the Ministry of Labor in the respective decree should be used; for 1988, this was set at the sum of Q135.00 (one hundred and thirty-five quetzales). It expressed its agreement with the items used by the Commission to calculate this amount, except for the deduction of 25% a year for personal expenses, which should be higher, and it rejected the payment of 3% interest since 1987; and b) regarding the other expenses incurred by the victim’s family, it stated that there was no proof for the calculation of the expenditures made by the next of kin. It also declared that the expenses for investigating the facts and obtaining the remains of the victim were excessive; that, regarding the funeral expenses, there is a contradiction between the information submitted by the Commission and that presented by the victim’s next of kin. Lastly, with regard to the gold medal, it maintained that “this item cannot be proved and, therefore, cannot be relevant for the Court.” The considerations of the Court 115. According to identity card No. 649865, the victim was born on March 30, 1963; in other words, he was 24.2 years of age at the date of his death. 116. This identification document records his occupation as a farm laborer. However, it is also true that this document was issued on April 10, 1981, so that the Court considers it possible that the victim had changed his occupation in the following six years and that the change was not recorded. On the other hand, the brief submitted by the next of kin states that he was a mechanic and that, as such, he earned a monthly wage of Q1,400.00 (one thousand four hundred quetzales). The Court considers that these declarations are not supported by any document that would allow the Court to establish effectively that this was the victim’s occupation; consequently, as it is not possible to determine the real wage, owing to lack of precise information, the minimum salary in force in the country must be used39. 117. According to the documentation in the body of evidence in the case sub judice, at the time of the facts, the minimum salary for the basic basket, which the victim would have received, was Q153.00 (one hundred and fifty-three quetzales), equal to US$60.00 (sixty United States dollars) a month. The calculation will be made on the basis of 12 salaries a year, plus the corresponding annual bonuses, in accordance with Guatemalan norms (supra 87.1.b). These are the earnings that the victim would presumably have enjoyed during his life expectancy of 43.98 years, the period between the victim’s age at the time of the facts and the end of the life expectancy of a man of 24.2 years of age in Guatemala in 1987 (supra 87.3.d). 25% should be deducted from this amount for personal expenses. The resulting amount should be brought to the current value at the date of the judgment. Consequently, the amount for this item is US$25,855.00 (twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty-five United States dollars). 118. According to the criteria it has established, this Court considers that the fact that the victim had formed his own household with Bertha Violeta Flores Gómez and that, as a result, a son, Julio Salomón Gómez Flores, had been born, makes these two persons beneficiaries of any compensation granted to the victim. Consequently, 39 Cf. Castillo Páez case, Reparations, supra note 2, para. 75; and Neira Alegría et al. case, Reparations, supra note 19, para. 49.