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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005

2005, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005 covers 80 countries on 3 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 3,726.68; Malta is lowest, at 4.07. The middle country reads 661.52. Against 2004, 68 values changed (46 up, 22 down), 12 countries joined, 3 left.

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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees · Data for 2005

HighestLuxembourg

3,726.68

LowestMalta

4.07

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 80 countries · select a heading to sort

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe3,726.682,746.9654,407.3—
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,276.282,725.4793,769.1—
3United StatesUSANorthern America3,029.412,522.8533,500.8—
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2,990.582,107.1353,765.2—
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2,950.772,140.5963,495.8—
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe2,822.972,068.6173,432.2—
7Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia2,822.712,370.2213,010.5—
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe2,818.792,356.6213,206.4—
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2,584.862,248.7202,898.6—
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe2,531.711,979.5362,958.1—
11NorwayNORNorthern Europe2,461.351,967.1552,906.2—
12CanadaCANNorthern America2,417.502,029.1052,791.8—
13AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2,272.581,742.2922,761.4—
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe2,230.411,831.3722,634.1—
15IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2,221.431,785.4022,628.7—
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe2,203.001,694.5012,711.0—
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2,202.401,691.1872,724.4Break in series
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe2,121.361,802.8682,450.2—
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia1,989.121,591.7302,317.5—
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1,837.691,721.7901,940.7—
21IsraelISRWestern Asia1,773.38———
22FranceFRAWestern Europe1,676.211,427.0311,907.4Break in series
23Costa RicaCRICentral America1,583.761,583.6191,583.8—
24CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe1,359.791,275.0941,425.8—
25JamaicaJAMCaribbean1,194.20———

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg3,726.68
  2. 2Singapore3,276.28
  3. 3United States3,029.41
  4. 4Switzerland2,990.58
  5. 5Netherlands2,950.77

Lowest

  1. 80Malta4.07
  2. 79Serbia9.23
  3. 78DR Congo42.80
  4. 77Uganda58.19
  5. 76Tajikistan77.62

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 661.52. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (2021 PPP $)

    HighestLuxembourg2,746.965

    LowestMalta4.063

    Middle country: 632.522

  • Men (2021 PPP $)

    HighestLuxembourg4,407.3

    LowestMalta4.1

    Middle country: 803.2

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −3countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 46 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ DR Congo+ Germany+ Ethiopia+ Fiji+ Honduras+ India+ Kenya+ Lithuania+ Madagascar+ Romania+ Solomon Islands+ Uganda− Comoros− Guyana− Hong Kong

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2005.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • 100 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    ILO marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Break in series.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2005). Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/average-monthly-earnings/2005

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07Questions

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest average monthly earnings in Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005?

Luxembourg, at 3,726.68, of the 80 countries in the file.

What year does Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005 cover?

80.

Where can I download Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2005 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2024.

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