However, in 2020 it rose above the national average, according to the INE
The average monthly salary, in gross terms, rose by 3.87% in 2020 in the Region of Murcia, to 1,843.4 euros, according to the decile of salaries prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) based on the data of the Labor Force Survey (EPA). It is the fourth consecutive year in which the average salary has increased in the Region after the decrease experienced in 2016.
Thus, the Region of Murcia is the fourth autonomous community with the lowest average gross monthly salary, only ahead of Andalusia (1,837.3 euros); Canary Islands (1,775.7 euros) and Extremadura (1,760.5 euros). The INE specifies that in the estimation of the monthly salary for 2020, income from temporary employment regulation files (ERTE) has been taken into consideration in cases in which employees were in this situation.
The national rise, less
In Spain, the average monthly salary rose by 2.8% in 2020 to 2,038.6 euros. 40% of wage earners (6.44 million) earned between 1,336.6 and 2,295.2 euros gross per month in 2020, while 30% (4.8 million people) obtained salaries of at least 2,295.2 euros monthly and the remaining 30% (another 4.8 million employees) received a salary of less than 1,336.6 euros per month.
Among those 4.8 million employees who received the lowest salaries, more than 3.2 million earned less than 1,134.1 euros gross per month in their main job, while 1.6 million earned less than 820.19 euros . To compile this statistic, the INE orders all wage earners (16,103,800 people during the past year), according to the amount of the monthly salary received and divides them into 10 equal groups, with 10% of the workers in each group.
Women, youth and temporary have the lowest
According to the type of working day, 35% of full-time employees earned at least 2,295.2 euros per month in 2020 and 19.9% received less than 1,336.6 euros. On the contrary, 87.1% of part-time employees received less than 1,336.6 euros per month and only 1.7% received 2,295.2 euros or more.
The average gross salary of full-time workers reached 2,258.3 euros per month in 2020, almost three times more than part-time employees (800.3 euros), although in these differences the gap in hours worked must be taken into account between both groups.
According to INE data, women, young people, people with a lower level of training, workers with less seniority in companies and those hired temporarily have the lowest wages.
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