Salaries: At the “limit down” of Europe, hourly wages in Greece (Table)

In his interview with SKYthe Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakisreferring to her issue accuracy and on the measures taken by the government to deal with it, he noted that “wages are rising and there is no doubt about that. And the average wage and the minimum wage. Taxes have come down significantly, so we have more disposable income».

The government, in fact, constantly repeats that the pre-election goal which has set for average salary 1,500 euros and a minimum wage of 950 euros at the end of the four-year period feasibleas the economy improves and workers’ wages rise.

However, according to Eurostat data processing which he did in Instagram Account World Mapsin a level hourly wage Greece falls significantly short of the European average and is at the limit down among EU member countries. Specifically, the hourly wage in Greece is 12.6 euros, an amount that ranks it among the countries with low wages.

Behind Greece are the Bulgaria (8.1 euros per hour), h Romania (10.4 euros per hour), h Latvia (10.7 euros per hour), h Hungary (11 euros per hour), h Poland (11.9 euros per hour) and Slovakia (12.5 euros per hour). On the contrary, above Greece are countries such as Croatian (12.7 euros per hour), h Czech republic and the Estonia (13.6 euros per hour), h Portugal (13.7 euros per hour) and Lithuania with the Malta (14 euros per hour).

On the contrary, the higher hourly wage in Europe it is located at Luxembourg and reaches the 47.2 eurosand are followed by Denmark with 42 euros per hour, Norway (41.7 euros per hour), h Iceland (39.5 euros per hour) and the Belgium (36.3 euros per hour). At Germany the hourly wage is 31.6 euros, at France 28.7 euros, in Spain 18.2 euros, in Italy 21.5 euros, at Sweden 26.3 euros and at Finland 30.5 euros. Overall in Europe the average hourly wage is formed in 24 euroswhich is almost double from Greek.

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