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158, "name": "Ethiopia", "code": "ETH"}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 202, "name": "Fiji", "code": "FJI"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 150, "name": "Ghana", "code": "GHA"}, {"id": 147, "name": "Guinea", "code": "GIN"}, {"id": 151, "name": "Gambia", "code": "GMB"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 148, "name": "Guatemala", "code": "GTM"}, {"id": 146, "name": "Guyana", "code": "GUY"}, {"id": 139, "name": "Honduras", "code": "HND"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 134, "name": "Iraq", "code": "IRQ"}, {"id": 207, "name": "Iceland", "code": "ISL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 132, "name": "Jamaica", "code": "JAM"}, {"id": 130, "name": "Jordan", "code": "JOR"}, {"id": 129, "name": "Kenya", "code": "KEN"}, {"id": 42, "name": "Cambodia", "code": "KHM"}, {"id": 204, "name": "Kiribati", "code": "KIR"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 125, "name": "Laos", "code": "LAO"}, {"id": 124, "name": "Lebanon", "code": "LBN"}, {"id": 121, "name": "Liberia", "code": "LBR"}, {"id": 141, "name": "Sri Lanka", "code": "LKA"}, {"id": 123, "name": "Lesotho", "code": "LSO"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 210, "name": "Luxembourg", "code": "LUX"}, {"id": 122, "name": "Latvia", "code": "LVA"}, {"id": 111, "name": "Moldova", "code": "MDA"}, {"id": 118, "name": "Madagascar", "code": "MDG"}, {"id": 211, "name": "Maldives", "code": "MDV"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 223, "name": "Marshall Islands", "code": "MHL"}, {"id": 66, "name": "North Macedonia", "code": "MKD"}, {"id": 115, "name": "Mali", "code": "MLI"}, {"id": 212, "name": "Malta", "code": "MLT"}, {"id": 142, "name": "Myanmar", "code": "MMR"}, {"id": 112, "name": "Mongolia", "code": "MNG"}, {"id": 213, "name": "Mauritius", "code": "MUS"}, {"id": 117, "name": "Malawi", "code": "MWI"}, {"id": 116, "name": "Malaysia", "code": "MYS"}, {"id": 108, "name": "Namibia", "code": "NAM"}, {"id": 220, "name": "New Caledonia", "code": "NCL"}, {"id": 103, "name": "Nigeria", "code": "NGA"}, {"id": 105, "name": "Nicaragua", "code": "NIC"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 107, "name": "Nepal", "code": "NPL"}, {"id": 101, "name": "Pakistan", "code": "PAK"}, {"id": 100, "name": "Panama", "code": "PAN"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 93, "name": "Puerto Rico", "code": "PRI"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 98, "name": "Paraguay", "code": "PRY"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 91, "name": "Rwanda", "code": "RWA"}, {"id": 79, "name": "Sudan", "code": "SDN"}, {"id": 89, "name": "Senegal", "code": "SEN"}, {"id": 259, "name": "El Salvador", "code": "SLV"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Serbia", "code": "SRB"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 78, "name": "Eswatini", "code": "SWZ"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 225, "name": "East Timor", "code": "TLS"}, {"id": 235, "name": "Tonga", "code": "TON"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 67, "name": "Ukraine", "code": "UKR"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 62, "name": "Uzbekistan", "code": "UZB"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 221, "name": "Vanuatu", "code": "VUT"}, {"id": 239, "name": "Samoa", "code": "WSM"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Gross remuneration for time worked or work done, vacation, and other types of paid leave.", "descriptionFromProducer": "**With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures.** The earnings of employees relate to the gross remuneration in cash and in kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration for time not worked, such as annual vacation, other type of paid leave or holidays. Earnings exclude employers' contributions in respect of their employees paid to social security and pension schemes and also the benefits received by employees under these schemes. Earnings also exclude severance and termination pay. Data are converted to U.S. dollars as the common currency, using exchange rates or using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates for private consumption expenditures. The latter series allows for international comparisons by taking account of the differences in relative prices between countries. For more information, refer to the [Wages and Working Time Statistics (COND) database description](https://ilostat.ilo.org/methods/concepts-and-definitions/description-wages-and-working-time-statistics/).", "descriptionProcessing": "We removed data points flagged as \"unreliable\" by the source (i.e. `obs_status = \"U\"` in the original data). These data points are likely to be inaccurate and misleading for analysis.\n\nWe excluded observations where average hourly earnings were below 0.2 or above 100 international-$ in 2021 prices. Such values are highly unlikely as national averages and are therefore probably the result of miscalculation.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "ILOSTAT", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-02-03", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Average hourly earnings of employees - Total", "unit": "international-$ in 2021 prices", "shortUnit": "$", "tolerance": 5, "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "ILO", "topicTagsLinks": ["Work & Employment"], "faqs": [{"gdocId": "1gGburArxglFdHXeTLotFW4TOOLoeRq5XW6UfAdKtaAw", "fragmentId": "poverty-international-dollars"}]}, "descriptionKey": ["This data includes remuneration in cash and as benefits in kind paid to employees at regular intervals. It excludes employers' contributions paid to social security and pensions schemes, the benefits received by employees under these schemes, as well as severance and termination pay.", "Employees are defined as workers in paid employment jobs. Paid employment refers to all jobs where people hold an employment contract which gives them remuneration not dependent upon the revenue of the organization for which they work. This status in employment is provided according to the [International Standard Classification of Status in Employment](https://ilostat.ilo.org/methods/concepts-and-definitions/classification-status-at-work/) (ICSE-93).", "This data is expressed in constant international dollars to adjust for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Read more in our article, [What are international dollars?](https://ourworldindata.org/international-dollars)"], "origins": [{"id": 12491, "title": "ILOSTAT", "description": "The ILO\u2019s main online database, ILOSTAT, maintained by the Department of Statistics, is the world\u2019s largest repository of labour market statistics. It covers all countries and regions and a wide range of labour-related topics, including employment, unemployment, wages, working time and labour productivity, to name a few. It includes time series going back as far as 1938; annual, quarterly and monthly labour statistics; country-level, regional and global estimates; and even projections of the main labour market indicators.", "producer": "International Labour Organization", "citationFull": "International Labour Organization. (2026). ILO modelled estimates database, ILOSTAT [database]. Available from https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.", "attributionShort": "ILO", "urlMain": "https://ilostat.ilo.org/", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-11", "datePublished": "2026-02-11", "license": {"url": "https://www.ilo.org/rights-and-permissions#data", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}