Wages, Salaries and Labour Costs

Index of wage and salary earnings (2010 = 100)

	Index of wage and salary earnings			Annual change, %
	2010 = 100			Nominal		Real
	2010	2011	2012*	2011	2012*	2011	2012*
Total	100,0	102,7	106,3	2,7	3,5	-0,7	0,7
Private sector	100,0	102,5	106,1	2,5	3,5	-0,9	0,6
Local government	100,0	103,0	106,5	3,0	3,4	-0,4	0,6
Central government	100,0	103,7	107,5	3,7	3,6	0,3	0,8
Males	100,0	102,5	106,0	2,5	3,4	-0,9	0,5
Females	100,0	102,9	106,6	2,9	3,6	-0,5	0,7
* preliminary data

Table in Excel format suoluk_palk1.xls

Last updated: 5.2.2013

Year	Index of wage and salary earnings	Index of real wage and salary earnings
Year	%
1975	21,9	3,4
1976	14,9	0,5
1977	8,5	-3,7
1978	6,8	-0,7
1979	11,4	3,9
1980	12,0	0,4
1981	12,8	0,8
1982	10,6	1,1
1983	10,4	1,7
1984	9,4	2,3
1985	8,4	2,4
1986	7,0	3,3
1987	7,0	3,2
1988	9,0	3,9
1989	8,9	2,1
1990	9,2	3,0
1991	6,4	1,9
1992	1,9	-0,6
1993	0,8	-1,4
1994	2,0	0,9
1995	4,7	3,7
1996	4,2	3,6
1997	2,4	1,2
1998	3,5	2,1
1999	2,8	1,6
2000	4,0	0,6
2001	4,5	1,9
2002	3,5	1,9
2003	4,0	3,1
2004	3,8	3,6
2005	3,9	3,0
2006	2,9	1,3
2007	3,4	0,9
2008	5,5	1,4
2009	4,0	4,0
2010	2,6	1,4
2011	2,7	-0,7
2012*	3,5	0,7
* preliminary data

Table in Excel format suoluk_palk3.xls

Last updated: 5.2.2013

Table in Excel format suoluk_palk4.xls

Last updated: 8.4.2013

Age	Lower secondary education	Upper secondary level education	Lowest level tertiary education	Lower-degree level tertiary education	Higher-degree level tertiary education	Doctorate or equivalent level tertiary education
Age	€/month
-20	1 863	1 934	-	-	-	-
20-24	2 130	2 211	. .	2 431	2 844	. .
25-29	2 465	2 496	2 512	2 661	3 270	3 587
30-34	2 690	2 692	2 819	3 018	3 674	3 998
35-39	2 841	2 821	3 045	3 372	4 188	4 455
40-44	2 761	2 800	3 154	3 536	4 533	5 030
45-49	2 743	2 783	3 249	3 663	4 671	5 328
50-54	2 701	2 760	3 214	3 811	4 780	5 671
55-59	2 651	2 709	3 164	3 944	4 897	5 814
60-69	2 596	2 684	3 209	4 063	4 924	5 960

Table in Excel format suoluk_palk2.xls

Last updated: 2.5.2013

Main category of occupation	Full-time employees
	Number	Monthly earnings, €
	Number	Total	Men	Women
Armed forces	5 941	3 740	3 784	2 906
Legislators, senior officials and managers	55 386	5 596	5 996	4 857
Professionals	300 734	3 972	4 351	3 636
Technicians and associate professionals	315 976	3 173	3 526	2 887
Clerks	122 088	2 548	2 687	2 508
Service workers and shop and market sales workers	239 671	2 350	2 608	2 260
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	6 411	2 215	2 263	2 159
Craft and related trades workers	151 975	2 814	2 851	2 366
Plant and machine operators and assemblers	118 721	2 815	2 919	2 434
Elementary occupations	90 228	2 169	2 443	1 961
Unknown	3 290	2 910	3 032	2 740
Total	1 410 421	3 109	3 422	2 807

Table in Excel format suoluk_palk5.xls

Last updated: 8.4.2013

Year	%
1990	55,2
1991	59,4
1992	58,5
1993	54,7
1994	50,8
1995	48,2
1996	48,6
1997	46,7
1998	46,2
1999	45,7
2000	45,0
2001	45,2
2002	44,9
2003	46,4
2004	45,3
2005	46,3
2006	45,8
2007	45,2
2008	47,0
2009	50,3
2010*	49,3
2011*	49,0
2012*	49,8
1) Including wages and salaries receivable from the rest of the world, net. Excluding income from employee stock options. * preliminary data

Table in Excel format suoluk_palk6.xls

Last updated: 1.3.2013

Next update: July 2013

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