List of countries by average wage

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The average wage is a measure for the financial well-being of a country's inhabitants. The average wages are sometimes, like in this article, adjusted to living expenses ("purchasing power parity"). The wage distribution is right-skewed; the majority of people earn less than the average wage. For an alternative measure, the Median household income uses median instead of average.

OECD statistics

The OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) dataset contains data on average annual wages for full-time and full-year equivalent employees in the total economy. Average annual wages per full-time equivalent dependent employee are obtained by dividing the national-accounts-based total wage bill by the average number of employees in the total economy, which is then multiplied by the ratio of average usual weekly hours per full-time employee to average usually weekly hours for all employees.

Average wages are converted in US dollar nominal using 2013 US dollar nominal for private consumption and are deflated by a price deflator for private final consumption expenditures in 2013 prices. The OECD is a weighted average based on dependent employment weights in 2013 for the countries shown.

Country	Average annual wages, 2015 constant prices at 2015 USD PPP
Luxembourg	60,369
United States	58,714
Switzerland	58,389
Norway	50,908
Netherlands	50,670
Australia	50,167
Denmark	50,024
Canada	47,843
Belgium	47,702
Austria	46,084
Ireland	46,074
Germany	44,925
United Kingdom	41,384
France	41,252
Sweden	40,909
Finland	40,731
Spain	36,325
Japan	35,780
Italy	34,140
South Korea	33,110
Slovenia	33,085
Israel	29,794
Greece	25,211
Portugal	24,105
Poland	23,998
Slovakia	22,031
Czech Republic	21,689
Estonia	21,564
Hungary	19,999
Mexico	14,867

UNECE statistics

Gross average monthly wage estimates for 2015 are computed by converting national currency figures from the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (OECD, EUROSTAT, CIS) official sources. Wages in US dollars are computed by the UNECE Secretariat using nominal exchange rates.

Gross average monthly wages cover total wages and salaries in cash and in kind, before any tax deduction and before social security contributions. They include wages and salaries, remuneration for time not worked, bonuses and gratuities paid by the employer to the employee. Wages cover the total economy and are expressed per full-time equivalent employee.

Country	Monthly average wage
Switzerland	$7,396
United States	$4,893
Luxembourg	$5,583
Ireland	$4,379
Netherlands	$4,289
Norway	$5,418
Belgium	$3,963
Denmark	$5,310
Austria	$3,761
Canada	$4,134
United Kingdom	$3,461
Germany	$3,478
Finland	$3,781
France	$3,374
Sweden	$3,849
Spain	$2,541
Italy	$2,671
Slovenia	$2,052
Greece	$1,631
Portugal	$1,513
Poland	$1,021
Czech Republic	$1,065
Slovakia	$1,138
Hungary	$888
Romania	$747
Bosnia & Herzegovina	$731
Lithuania	$900
Armenia	$386
Belarus	$422
Bulgaria	$627
Philippines	$379
Moldova	$258

See also

• List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
• International Ranking of Household Income
• Wages and Salaries
• List of European Union member states by average wage

External links

• GDP per capita by country Interactive GDP chart that allows filtering by various national groupings (such as NATO, EU, BRIC, ASEAN etc.)
• Database Central Europe; average wages in emerging markets