Luxembourg had the highest average monthly salary of employees in the world in 2024 in terms of purchasing power parities (PPP), which takes the average cost of living in a country into account. Belgium followed in second, with the Netherlands in third.

In 2024, senior executives in the IT market reported the highest total annual compensation, with a median of over 127,388 thousand U.S. dollars. Developer advocates, managers, and developer experience engineers earned well over 100 thousand U.S. dollars annually. Site reliability engineers and cloud infrastructure engineers had median earnings of one thousand and 97 thousand U.S. dollars, respectively. At the lower end of the spectrum, academic researchers, front-end developers, and students earned less than 50 thousand U.S. dollars in total annual compensation.

As of 2023, Rwanda had the lowest average monthly salary of employees in the world in terms of purchasing power parities (PPP), which takes the average cost of living in a country into account. Gambia had the second lowest average wages, with Ethiopia in third. Of the 20 countries with the lowest average salaries in the world, 17 were located in Africa. On the other hand, Luxembourg had the highest average monthly salaries of employees.

Graph and download economic data for Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments (NA000274Q) from Q1 2002 to Q1 2025 about payments, salaries, wages, income, and GDP.

This dataset provides values for WAGES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This dataset provides values for WAGES IN MANUFACTURING reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Graph and download economic data for Current receipts from the rest of the world: Income receipts: Wage and salary receipts (B4188C1A027NBEA) from 1948 to 2024 about receipts, salaries, wages, income, and GDP.

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The average salary of an IT professional working in cloud computing worldwide amounted to approximately ******* U.S. dollars in 2019. Although notably different, the salary for cloud computing was only within ** thousand of the salary for the executive.

Wages in China increased to 120698 CNY/Year in 2023 from 114029 CNY/Year in 2022. This dataset provides - China Average Yearly Wages - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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United States - Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments was 30.11200 Bil. of $ in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments reached a record high of 30.11200 in January of 2025 and a record low of 1.71300 in July of 1988. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

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PhD candidates typically get paid to study.

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Self-reported PhD salaries from phdstipends.com.

['University', 'Department', 'Overall Pay', 'Living Wage Ratio', 'Academic Year', 'Program Year', etc.]

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Data from http://www.phdstipends.com/csv

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United States - Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments was 6291.00000 Mil. of $ in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments reached a record high of 7952.00000 in July of 2024 and a record low of 2945.00000 in January of 2010. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Current payments to the rest of the world: Income payments: Wage and salary payments - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Cross-national research on the causes and consequences of income inequality has been hindered by the limitations of existing inequality datasets: greater coverage across countries and over time is available from these sources only at the cost of significantly reduced comparability across observations. The goal of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) is to overcome these limitations. A custom missing-data algorithm was used to standardize the United Nations University's World Income Inequality Database and data from other sources; data collected by the Luxembourg Income Study served as the standard. The SWIID provides comparable Gini indices of gross and net income inequality for 192 countries for as many years as possible from 1960 to the present along with estimates of uncertainty in these statistics. By maximizing comparability for the largest possible sample of countries and years, the SWIID is better suited to broadly cross-national research on income inequality than previously available sources: it offers coverage double that of the next largest income inequality dataset, and its record of comparability is three to eight times better than those of alternate datasets.

Wage and salaried workers, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Djibouti was reported at 53.26 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Djibouti - Wage and salary workers; male (% of males employed) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on August of 2025.

China Flow of Funds: Rest of the World: Source: Compensation of Labor: Wage & Salary data was reported at 0.000 RMB bn in 2012. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 RMB bn for 2011. China Flow of Funds: Rest of the World: Source: Compensation of Labor: Wage & Salary data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 RMB bn from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2012, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.000 RMB bn in 2012 and a record low of 0.000 RMB bn in 2012. China Flow of Funds: Rest of the World: Source: Compensation of Labor: Wage & Salary data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s National Accounts – Table CN.AD: Flow of Funds Accounts: Physical Transaction: Rest of World.

This statistic shows the salaries of global IT professionals, by responsibility level in 2018. The average entry-level salary worldwide amounted to about ** thousand U.S. dollars in 2018.

The average for 2021 based on 71 countries was 27.53 percent. The highest value was in Colombia: 43.7 percent and the lowest value was in Slovakia: 19.1 percent. The indicator is available from 1963 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Ziel der Untersuchung ist, über die seit der Vorkriegszeit eingetretenen Veränderungen der Lohn- und Gehaltssituation zu informieren. Unter „Vorkriegszeit“ werden die Jahre der Weimarer Republik (im engeren Sinne die Jahre von 1924 bis 1929), unter „Nachkriegszeit“ die Jahre seit 1959 verstanden (bis 1954). Das Hauptgewicht des Vergleichs liegt auf der Situation der Bundesrepublik, deren Verhältnisse mit denen der Vorkriegszeit verglichen werden. Für beide Perioden wird für sämtliche zu vergleichenden Jahre eine gemeinsame Indexbasis zugrunde gelegt. Diese gemeinsame Basis stellt das Jahr 1928 dar. „Gerade wegen der ‚Vergleichspriorität‘, die der Gegenwart zugemessen wird, war ein Jahr aus der Weimarer Zeit als Basisjahr heranzuziehen. Die Wahl fiel auf das Jahr 1928, weil für Einkommensbetrachtungen, die einen ‚isolierten‘ Vergleich intendieren, Jahre konjunktureller Höhepunkte am geeignetsten sind. Zwar hatte die Konjunkturentwicklung der Weimarer Zeit erst im Verlaufe des Jahres 1929 ihren Höhepunkt erreicht; da sich aber im Jahre 1929 der Einfluss der Beginnenden Krise bereits stark bemerkbar machte, ist das Jahr 1928 als das Jahr mit der gleichsam ‚reinsten‘ Hochkonjunktur der Vorkriegszeit anzusehen und wurde deshalb als Basisjahr genommen. In der Untersuchung“ (Menges/Kolbeck, a. a. O., S. XII). In der Untersuchung werden zwei Typen des Periodenvergleichs unterschieden. (1) „Eliminierter Vergleich“: Vergleich, dem ausschließlich das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Gebietsstand von 1950) zugrunde liegt; (2) „Uneliminierter Vergleich“: Vergleich, dem für die Jahre bis 1945 das Reichsgebiet (Gebietsstand von 1925) und für die Jahre ab 1945 das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Stand 1950) zugrunde liegt. Der weitaus größte Teil der präsentierten Daten stellen Schätzungen dar, die „in jedem Falle fundiert sind, aber doch häufig nur als grob gelten können“ (Menges/Kolbeck, a. a. O., S. VII). Datentabellen in HISTAT:Die ‚Datentabellen können grob den folgenden inhaltlichen Schwerpunkten zugeordnet werden:A. Strukturdaten (Erwerbspersonen, Altersgliederung der Arbeitnehmer)B. Die Kaufkraft des GeldesC. Löhne und Gehälter in ihrer Gesamtheit im Vergleich zum VolkseinkommenD. Die Löhne und Gehälter im Einzelnen: ArbeiterE. Die Löhne und Gehälter im Einzelnen: AngestellteF. Die Löhne und Gehälter im Einzelnen: ZusammenfassungG. Ergänzende Beurteilung: Haushaltseinkommen, Arbeitszeit, Sozialversicherung, Arbeitslosigkeit