The average monthly salary shot up by 7.3% in 2023, to 2,273 euros gross. This is the highest figure since the series began in 2006, but the increase compared to the previous year stands out especially, the largest since 2008, fifteen years ago, according to salary data from the Active Population Survey (EPA). ), which is published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Thus, the INE explains that the average salary was 2,273 gross euros per month in 2023, with an increase of 154 euros per month compared to 2022, which is 7.3% more.
For its part, the median salary – an intermediate value if we order all workers from lowest to highest salary – stood at 1,935.5 euros gross per month, “with an increase of 132.7 euros (7.4%)” , highlights the INE.
The large increase in the monthly salary collected by the EPA may be due to multiple reasons. Such as, for example, the higher salary increases agreed last year, due to the previous stage of strong inflation, as well as more hours of work per month carried out by workers and/or the existence of better jobs, among other reasons.
The average salary of women last year was 2,063 gross euros per month, while that of men reached 2,468 gross euros.
The INE recalls that “men had a greater relative concentration in high salaries than women.” Thus, 34% earned 2,548 euros gross per month or more in 2023, compared to 25.7% of women, for example.
In low salaries the opposite happened. Almost 40% of women had a salary of less than 1,535 euros gross per month, compared to 21% of men. Different examples of the wage gap between men and women that still exists and is explained by various inequalities in the labor market.
By branch of activity, the lowest salaries (below 1,534.7 euros) were concentrated in 2023 in domestic employment (78.4%) and in the Agriculture, livestock, forestry sector and fishing (61.8%). “For their part, the branches of activity with the greatest relative weight in salaries of 2,548.2 and more euros were Supply of electrical energy, gas, steam and air conditioning (66.6%), Financial and insurance activities (66.4%). %) and Education (60.1%)”, adds the National Institute of Statistics.
Regarding average salaries, the lowest in 2023 corresponded again to household employment (1,014 euros), hospitality (1,456) and agriculture, forestry and fishing (1,561). And the highest were in Supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (4,067 euros), Financial and insurance activities (3,543) and Public Administration and defense Mandatory social security (2,949).
By Autonomous Communities, the productive structure of each region has a great influence on its salary level, reminds the INE. The communities with the highest average salary were Euskadi (2,624 euros), the Community of Madrid (2,575) and the Foral Community of Navarra (2,516). And on the opposite side, the lowest average salaries were observed in Extremadura (1,916 euros), the Canary Islands (1,988) and Castilla–La Mancha (2,025).
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