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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.

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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2024
Held
22 years · 1,982 rows
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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.

2002bar height: countries covered, up to 1152024
Every year of Average Monthly Earnings of Employees held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2024Newest75+5 −9September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 202379+7 −25September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 202297+22 −15September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 202190+12 −16September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 202094+5 −26September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2019115+24 −9September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2018100+12 −14September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2017102+15 −17September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016104+13 −7September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 201598+10 −15September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2014103+14 −9September 29, 2026CSV
Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 201398+9 −10September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 22 years

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.

Every column in the newest file of Average Monthly Earnings of Employees: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—750
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—750
Average monthly earnings of employees (2021 PPP $)average_monthly_earningsHeadlineThe headline figure: Average monthly earnings of employees (2021 PPP $).Number · up to 3 decimals193Rwanda9,307Luxembourgmiddle 1,636750
Women (2021 PPP $)femaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 3 decimals147Rwanda8,062Luxembourgmiddle 1,522750
Men (2021 PPP $)maleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 3 decimals229.8Rwanda10,356.2Luxembourgmiddle 1,768.4750
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlagILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.Text—172

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa101289121021910191113
Americas222220221922211818182020
Asia282829322928312923231511
Europe363838373837383636353030
Oceania233443423231
All98103981041021001159490977975

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

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    International Labour Organization (ILO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Average Monthly Earnings of Employees 2024

    Read from the publisher’s own service.
  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 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.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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.

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