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<title>Age has greatest impact on pay in demanding professional tasks</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's Structure of Earnings statistics, in 2010 age had the greatest impact on the pay of employees performing demanding professional tasks. The monthly salaries of professionals and associate professionals were the highest in the oldest age groups. No corresponding phenomenon could be observed among employees in less demanding positions. In these occupations, average earnings rose at the start of the working career but then failed to go up further after the age of 45 and in some cases the age-related development of pay could even take a negative turn.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Growth of earnings was fastest in Satakunta and slowest in Central Ostrobothnia in 2009</title>
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<description>Corrected on 7 October 2011 .</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pay differentials continued to grow in 2008</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finlands Structure of Earnings statistics, the average monthly earnings of all full-time wage and salary earners were EUR 2,876 in the last quarter of 2008 and the median 1) earnings were EUR 2,551. The earnings of the best paid tenth (9th decile) of wage and salary earners exceeded EUR 4,287 while the lowest paid tenth (1st decile) earned less than EUR 1,826 per month. Thus, the best paid decile earned at least 2.35 times more than the decile with the lowest earnings. The difference in earnings between the highest and the lowest decile grew by around three percentage points from the previous year.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pay differentials largest in Uusimaa, smallest in Etelä-Savo</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's Structure of Earnings statistics, the average monthly earnings of all full-time wage and salary earners were EUR 2,734 in the last quarter of 2007 and the median earnings1 were EUR 2,428. The earnings of the best paid tenth (9th decile) of wage and salary earners exceeded EUR 4,047 while the lowest paid tenth (1st decile) earned less than EUR 1,748. Thus, the best paid decile earned at least 2.32 times more than the decile with the lowest earnings.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wages and salaries are rising fastest in Itä-Uusimaa and Päijät-Häme</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland's Structure of Earnings statistics, wages and salaries rose most in the Regions of Itä-Uusimaa and Päijät-Häme, when development in the earnings of full-time wage and salary earners is compared between 2001 and 2006. Over the examined period, development in earnings was slowest in the Regions of Central Finland and Satakunta, where it was approximately four percentage points slower than the average for the whole country.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Narrowing of gender wage gap has slowed down in recent years</title>
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<description>An examination of the total earnings of full-time wage and salary earners indicates that the wage gap between the genders has remained nearly unchanged in the 2000s. The average monthly earnings of all full-time wage and salary earners totalled EUR 2,555 in the last quarter of 2005. Men earned EUR 2,813 and women EUR 2,275. In 2005, women earned 80.9 per cent, and in 2001, 80.2 per cent of men's earnings. There was no change in the gender wage gap between 2004 and 2005. Placement of women and men in different tasks is one reason for the earnings differential between the genders.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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