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 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's statistics

rank	Country	Disposable income in 2012 USD	Compulsory deduction	Gross income in 2012 USD
1	United States	38,753	29.6%	55,047
2	Ireland	38,210	25.9%	51,565
3	Luxembourg	33,373	36.6%	52,639
4	Australia	33,319	32.9%	49,655
5	Switzerland	32,066	39.8%	53,265
6	Canada	31,501	30.8%	45,521
7	United Kingdom	29,938	32.3%	44,222
8	South Korea	29,038	21.0%	36,757
9	Norway	28,543	38.5%	46,412
10	Denmark	27,424	39.1%	45,031
11	Japan	23,486	31.2%	34,137
12	Austria	22,813	48.9%	44,644
13	Finland	22,548	42.5%	39,214
14	Sweden	22,512	43.0%	39,494
15	Netherlands	22,064	52.7%	46,646
16	Germany	21,187	49.7%	42,121
17	Belgium	20,894	56.0%	47,487
18	Israel	20,795	27.6%	28,722
19	Spain	20,232	41.4%	34,525
20	France	19,721	50.2%	39,600
21	Slovenia	18,575	42.3%	32,193
22	Italy	16,789	50.4%	33,849
23	Greece	15,142	41.9%	26,062
24	Portugal	14,621	36.7%	23,098
25	Poland	12,582	40.4%	21,110
26	Czech Republic	11,637	43.2%	20,487
27	Slovakia	11,479	43.2%	20,210
28	Estonia	10,642	41.6%	18,222
29	Hungary	10,288	49.4%	20,332

International Labour Organisation (ILO)'s statistics

The average wage, calculated by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency dealing with labour issues, particularly international labour standards and decent work for all, 185 of the 193 UN member states are members of the ILO. It's a rough figure based on data from 72 countries, omitting some of the world's poorest nations. All figures are adjusted to reflect variations in the cost of living from one country to another. According to ILO the World average wage in Purchasing Power Parity dollars is $1,480.

rank	Country	Monthly average wage in PPP dollars, 2009
1	Luxembourg	$4,089
2	Norway	$3,678
3	Austria	$3,437
4	United States	$3,263
5	United Kingdom	$3,065
6	Belgium	$3,035
7	Sweden	$3,023
8	Ireland	$2,997
9	Finland	$2,925
10	South Korea	$2,903
11	France	$2,886
12	Canada	$2,724
13	Germany	$2,720
14	Singapore	$2,616
15	Australia	$2,610
16	Cyprus	$2,605
17	Japan	$2,522
18	Italy	$2,445
19	Iceland	$2,431
20	Spain	$2,352
21	Greece	$2,300
22	New Zealand	$2,283
23	South Africa	$1,838
24	Malta	$1,808
25	Israel	$1,804
26	Czech Republic	$1,786
27	Croatia	$1,756
28	Turkey	$1,731
29	Qatar	$1,690
30	Hong Kong	$1,545
31	Poland	$1,536
32	Slovakia	$1,385
33	Hungary	$1,374
34	Republic of Macedonia	$1,345
35	Bosnia & Herzegovina	$1,338
36	Estonia	$1,267
37	Russian Federation	$1,215
38	Jamaica	$1,135
39	Lithuania	$1,109
40	Argentina	$1,108
41	Latvia	$1,098
42	Serbia	$1,058
43	Chile	$1,021
44	Botswana	$996
45	Malaysia	$961
46	Belarus	$959
47	Romania	$954
48	Bahrain	$917
49	Panama	$831
50	Mauritius	$783
51	Brazil	$778
52	Macau	$758
53	Kazakhstan	$753
54	Bulgaria	$750
55	Colombia	$692
56	Ukraine	$686
57	China	$656
58	Mexico	$609
59	Georgia	$603
60	Azerbaijan	$596
61	Egypt	$548
62	Thailand	$489
63	Armenia	$471
64	Dominican Republic	$462
65	Moldova	$438
66	Mongolia	$415
67	Syria	$364
68	Kyrgyzstan	$336
69	India	$295
70	Philippines	$279
71	Pakistan	$255
72	Tajikistan	$227

UNECE's 2011 statistics

Wages common currency (US$) estimates: are computed by converting national currency figures on the UNECE site into PPPs for private consumption, both for year 2011, which come from the OECD database under National Accounts.

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. For most countries wages cover total economy and are expressed per full-time equivalent employee. This enables comparison of different countries irrespective of the length of working time and the share of part-time and full-time workers.

Where data are not available in full-time units, it has been mentioned in the note for the corresponding country. In these cases, the wages are either expressed for full-time workers only or total wages are divided by the number of all employees including both full-time and part-time workers.

rank	Country	Monthly average wage $
1	United States	$4,537
2	Luxembourg	$4,455
3	Switzerland	$4,265
4	Ireland	$4,211
5	Netherlands	$3,922
6	Norway	$3,881
7	Belgium	$3,831
8	Denmark	$3,826
9	Austria	$3,704
10	Canada	$3,604
11	United Kingdom	$3,461
12	Germany	$3,430
13	Iceland	$3,374
14	Finland	$3,242
15	France	$3,241
16	Sweden	$3,233
17	Spain	$2,884
18	Italy	$2,838
19	Slovenia	$2,701
20	Greece	$2,245
21	Israel	$2,047
22	Portugal	$1,928
23	Croatia	$1,856
24	Poland	$1,753
25	Hungary	$1,712
26	Czech Republic	$1,669
27	Slovakia	$1,638
28	Bosnia & Herzegovina	$1,545
29	Estonia	$1,450
30	Russia	$1,003
31	Belarus	$911
32	Kazakhstan	$696
33	Ukraine	$659
34	Azerbaijan	$654
35	Georgia	$636
36	Armenia	$512
37	Republic of Moldova	$462
39	Kyrgyzstan	$425
40	Tajikistan	$247

See also

• List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
• OECD
• International Ranking of Household Income
• Wages and Salaries

External links

• GDP per capita by country Interactive GDP chart that allows filtering by various national groupings (such as NATO, EU, BRIC, ASEAN etc.)