Exploring the public-private sector wage gap in European countries

Christofides, Louis N; Michael, Maria

doi:10.1186/2193-9012-2-15

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 4 Hourly mean wage in euro by industry (NACE categories)

From: Exploring the public-private sector wage gap in European countries

Country	A+B	C+D+E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O+P+Q	Total
AT	11.66	16.86	16.16	16.80	12.16	16.38	23.34	19.70	18.70	20.81	16.10	16.19	17.44
BE	16.05	18.68	15.75	17.30	13.19	17.30	24.63	19.51	18.29	18.39	17.70	17.78	18.33
BG	1.15	1.67	1.66	1.44	1.46	1.69	2.39	1.74	1.81	1.38	1.26	1.35	1.58
CY	10.90	10.18	11.23	8.96	7.97	12.99	16.84	11.02	13.98	19.64	13.99	6.49	11.70
CZ	3.37	4.12	4.06	3.71	3.24	4.48	5.56	5.12	4.99	4.35	4.03	3.89	4.18
DE	12.23	20.20	14.59	15.66	10.21	17.32	24.18	19.08	17.73	18.85	16.76	17.13	18.21
DK	17.54	24.77	23.78	23.82	19.16	24.59	33.45	28.31	26.04	25.54	22.40	25.12	24.95
EE	3.44	3.75	5.38	3.84	2.94	4.82	7.13	5.07	4.54	3.61	3.69	3.47	4.16
ES	7.58	10.70	9.14	8.72	8.13	10.96	16.31	10.52	13.77	16.01	12.74	8.49	11.13
FI	13.60	20.31	16.00	17.96	13.53	17.65	23.64	19.73	19.81	19.43	16.17	16.53	18.34
GR	5.73	10.33	7.90	8.36	7.34	12.90	13.94	10.59	13.52	14.75	11.46	8.94	10.63
HU	2.82	3.37	2.84	2.99	2.78	3.72	5.56	4.00	4.65	4.02	3.41	3.74	3.56
IE	17.04	23.15	21.07	18.60	14.97	22.64	35.02	25.49	26.19	29.62	23.89	21.31	23.96
IS	20.39	24.56	21.49	22.16	18.02	27.42	35.24	28.76	27.89	23.04	23.95	23.19	25.31
IT	9.72	12.89	11.01	11.67	10.00	13.89	19.98	13.55	16.07	14.46	16.42	11.70	13.58
LT	2.61	3.39	4.11	3.03	1.95	3.66	5.31	4.01	3.87	4.03	3.08	3.01	3.48
LU	17.10	24.34	13.39	14.51	11.77	24.78	33.97	21.43	29.65	30.81	23.43	33.37	23.46
LV	2.83	3.55	3.87	3.18	2.45	4.12	7.62	5.08	5.21	3.96	4.22	3.71	3.92
NL	21.34	24.32	20.48	21.67	16.21	21.31	30.60	25.85	26.16	24.72	24.95	22.60	24.23
NO	20.32	29.76	25.24	25.35	18.06	27.39	36.43	30.07	24.63	25.15	23.80	24.67	26.79
PL	3.28	3.87	3.29	3.11	2.80	4.10	6.46	4.13	4.82	4.77	3.64	3.47	3.91
PT	4.72	6.08	5.61	5.71	4.77	8.38	15.18	7.27	8.85	12.31	8.78	5.53	7.38
RO	1.49	1.82	2.05	1.77	1.33	2.01	2.76	2.22	2.68	2.14	2.07	1.79	1.95
SE	18.08	20.38	19.44	19.47	13.60	18.80	32.06	21.66	20.46	17.10	17.55	18.07	19.56
SI	7.15	7.70	7.89	7.76	6.42	8.28	12.03	9.40	10.24	10.58	9.12	9.07	8.55
SK	2.73	3.17	3.16	2.79	2.38	3.31	4.06	3.58	3.52	3.00	2.75	2.94	3.15
UK	13.90	21.05	20.90	17.30	18.51	20.25	31.26	24.81	22.52	21.72	21.43	17.56	21.61
Total	6.12	10.03	9.56	9.43	7.35	10.86	20.22	14.91	13.22	12.51	13.10	11.82	11.39

Note: A= Agriculture, hunting, forestry; B= Fishing; C= Mining; D= Manufacturing; E= Electricity, gas, water; F= Construction; G= Wholesale, retail trade, repair of vehicles, motorcycles, personal and household goods; H= Hotels, restaurants; I= Transport, storage, communications; J= Financial intermediation; K= Real estate etc.; L= Public Administration and defence, compulsory social security; M= Education; N= Health and social work; O+P+Q= Remaining industries.The Bolded column L=Public.

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