Dataset · ILO
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees
22 years, 2002–2024 · 75 countries · 3 measures
This is what employees earn in a month on average, before tax, converted by the International Labour Organization into dollars of equal purchasing power so that a month’s pay can be compared across countries with very different prices.
This site holds every year from 2002 to 2024, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees · the file
- Newest
- Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2024
- Held
- 22 years · 1,982 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0122 years
Every year
Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 22 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2012 | 99 | +10 −7 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2011 | 96 | +14 −11 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2010 | 93 | +14 −8 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2009 | 87 | +16 −6 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2008 | 77 | +1 −5 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2007 | 81 | +7 −4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006 | 78 | +7 −9 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005 | 80 | +12 −3 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2004 | 71 | +10 −4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2002 | 65 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: average-monthly-earnings-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 75 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 75 | 0 | |
Average monthly earnings of employees (2021 PPP $)average_monthly_earningsHeadline | The headline figure: Average monthly earnings of employees (2021 PPP $). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 193 | 75 | 0 | |
Women (2021 PPP $)femaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 147 | 75 | 0 | |
Men (2021 PPP $)maleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 229.8 | 75 | 0 | |
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag | ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 1 | 72 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03169 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 10 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 13 |
| Americas | 22 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 20 |
| Asia | 28 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 29 | 28 | 31 | 29 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 11 |
| Europe | 36 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 38 | 37 | 38 | 36 | 36 | 35 | 30 | 30 |
| Oceania | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| All | 98 | 103 | 98 | 104 | 102 | 100 | 115 | 94 | 90 | 97 | 79 | 75 |
The newest 12 of 22 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Fiji
+ Guyana
+ Lesotho
+ Nigeria
+ Tanzania
− Armenia
− Antigua and Barbuda
− Georgia
− Equatorial Guinea
− Indonesia
− Cambodia
− Kiribati
− Palau
− Tonga
- 2023
+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Bahamas
+ Equatorial Guinea
+ Cambodia
+ Kiribati
+ Palau
+ Tonga
− Albania
− Azerbaijan
− Benin
− China
− Côte d’Ivoire
− Germany
− Guinea-Bissau
− Kazakhstan
− Kyrgyzstan
− South Korea
− Laos
− Montenegro
− Mozambique
− Niger
− New Zealand
− Qatar
− Saudi Arabia
− Sudan
− San Marino
− Seychelles
− Chad
− Togo
− Ukraine
− Uzbekistan
− Samoa
- 2022
+ Benin
+ Burkina Faso
+ Bangladesh
+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ Ghana
+ Guinea-Bissau
+ Kazakhstan
+ Kyrgyzstan
+ Laos
+ Mali
+ Montenegro
+ Mozambique
+ Niger
+ Qatar
+ Saudi Arabia
+ Sudan
+ Senegal
+ Seychelles
+ Chad
+ Togo
+ Uruguay
+ Samoa
− Australia
− Comoros
− Ethiopia
− Guyana
− Israel
− Japan
− Cambodia
− Malta
− Pakistan
− Russia
− Singapore
− Eswatini
− Timor-Leste
− Tonga
− Uganda
- 2021
+ Colombia
+ Comoros
+ Ethiopia
+ Guatemala
+ Israel
+ Russia
+ Rwanda
+ El Salvador
+ Eswatini
+ Timor-Leste
+ Tonga
+ Uganda
− Afghanistan
− Burundi
− Bahrain
− Belize
− Iceland
− Kazakhstan
− Kyrgyzstan
− Mali
− Myanmar
− Malaysia
− Puerto Rico
− Qatar
− Saudi Arabia
− Tanzania
− Uruguay
− South Africa
- 2020
+ Afghanistan
+ Burundi
+ Bosnia and Herzegovina
+ Puerto Rico
+ Tanzania
− Benin
− Burkina Faso
− Bahamas
− Côte d’Ivoire
− Colombia
− Guinea
− Guinea-Bissau
− Guatemala
− Kenya
− Kiribati
− Lebanon
− Lesotho
− Maldives
− Marshall Islands
− Montenegro
− Niger
− Nigeria
− Russia
− Senegal
− El Salvador
− Seychelles
− Togo
− Tajikistan
− Tunisia
− Uganda
− Kosovo
- 2019
+ Angola
+ Armenia
+ Benin
+ Bahamas
+ Botswana
+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ Guinea
+ Guinea-Bissau
+ Kenya
+ Cambodia
+ Kiribati
+ Lebanon
+ Lesotho
+ Maldives
+ Marshall Islands
+ Niger
+ Nigeria
+ New Zealand
+ Russia
+ Senegal
+ Togo
+ Tajikistan
+ Tunisia
+ Uganda
− Antigua and Barbuda
− Curaçao
− Gambia
− Israel
− Macau
− Namibia
− Chad
− Tonga
− Samoa
- 2018
+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Burkina Faso
+ Bhutan
+ Curaçao
+ Gambia
+ Guyana
+ India
+ Israel
+ Namibia
+ Seychelles
+ Chad
+ Tonga
− Armenia
− Bangladesh
− Côte d’Ivoire
− Djibouti
− Ghana
− Laos
− Liberia
− New Caledonia
− Nepal
− New Zealand
− Russia
− Rwanda
− Togo
− Uganda
- 2017
+ Argentina
+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ Djibouti
+ Ghana
+ Laos
+ Myanmar
+ Montenegro
+ New Caledonia
+ Nepal
+ Rwanda
+ San Marino
+ Togo
+ Uganda
+ Samoa
+ Zambia
− Bosnia and Herzegovina
− Barbados
− DR Congo
− Fiji
− Guam
− Hong Kong
− Israel
− Kenya
− Cambodia
− Kuwait
− Saint Lucia
− Maldives
− Namibia
− Suriname
− Eswatini
− Timor-Leste
− Trinidad and Tobago
Not in this dataset · 56 places this site covers
ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees 2024
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
22 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as average-monthly-earnings-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Read from ILOSTAT directly, in the 2021 purchasing-power dollars the ILO itself publishes beside local currency and US dollars.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2002–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/average-monthly-earnings
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees: questions and answers
What is the Average Monthly Earnings of Employees?
This is what employees earn in a month on average, before tax, converted by the International Labour Organization into dollars of equal purchasing power so that a month’s pay can be compared across countries with very different prices.
Which years of the Average Monthly Earnings of Employees can I download?
All 22, from 2002 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does ILO rank countries on it?
No. ILO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.