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 adjusted to living expenses. 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

Country	Disposable income in 2014 USD (PPP)	Compulsory deduction, 2014 Family: 1 earner, 2 children	Gross income in 2014 USD (PPP)
Luxembourg	52,247	15.06%	61,511
Switzerland	51,477	9.82%	57,082
Ireland	47,995	9.93%	53,286
United States	45,363	20.61%	57,139
Australia	42,202	17.49%	51,148
Canada	39,408	18.18%	48,164
Denmark	35,087	27.22%	48,209
Norway	35,065	32.20%	51,718
Netherlands	33,765	31.91%	49,589
United Kingdom	30,582	26.59%	41,659
South Korea	29,686	19.02%	36,659
Germany	29,030	33.83%	43,872
Austria	28,163	38.76%	45,988
Belgium	28,553	40.63%	48,093
Japan	26,287	26.31%	35,672
Sweden	25,650	37.43%	40,994
Finland	24,877	38.94%	40,742
Slovenia	25,340	23.37%	33,068
Israel	24,271	18.10%	29,635
Spain	23,452	34.88%	36,013
France	24,276	40.54%	40,828
Italy	21,190	39.01%	34,744
Portugal	16,825	29.83%	23,977
Czech Republic	15,510	26.79%	21,185
Poland	16,559	29.98%	23,649
Slovak Republic	15,962	27.94%	22,151
Greece	14,952	43.44%	26,436
Hungary	14,001	34.57%	21,399
Estonia	14,098	32.93%	21,020
Mexico	13,085	19.47%	16,640

International Labour Organization (ILO) 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	$870
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	Russia	$1,792
28	Qatar	$1,690
29	Hong Kong	$1,545
30	Poland	$1,536
31	Slovakia	$1,385
32	Hungary	$1,374
33	Czech Republic	$1,370
34	Estonia	$1,267
35	Jamaica	$1,135
36	Lithuania	$1,109
37	Argentina	$1,108
38	Latvia	$1,098
39	Chile	$1,021
40	Botswana	$996
41	Malaysia	$961
42	Belarus	$959
43	Romania	$954
44	Bahrain	$917
45	Croatia	$835
46	Mauritius	$783
47	Brazil	$778
48	Macau	$758
49	Kazakhstan	$753
50	Bulgaria	$750
51	Colombia	$692
52	Ukraine	$686
53	China	$656
54	Mexico	$609
55	Georgia	$603
56	Azerbaijan	$596
57	Egypt	$548
58	Thailand	$489
59	Armenia	$471
60	Dominican Republic	$462
61	Moldova	$438
62	Mongolia	$415
63	Republic of Macedonia	$409
64	Syria	$364
65	Serbia	$317
66	Kyrgyzstan	$311
67	India	$302
68	Philippines	$279
69	Peru	$268
70	Pakistan	$255

UNECE 2011 statistics

Wages common currency (US$) estimates: are computed by converting national currency figures on the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) 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.)
• Database Central Europe; average wages in emerging markets