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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006

2006, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006 covers 78 countries on 3 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 3,914; Malta is lowest, at 4. The middle country reads 792. Against 2005, 71 values changed (65 up, 6 down), 7 countries joined, 9 left.

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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees · Data for 2006

HighestLuxembourg

3,914

LowestMalta

4

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, 2006, 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 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe3,9142,981.34,592.7—
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,4572,884.73,969.2—
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,1522,439.33,815.0—
4United StatesUSANorthern America3,1302,612.93,607.8—
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3,1022,208.23,877.2—
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2,9902,100.53,693.4—
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe2,9112,439.83,301.0—
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2,7332,392.43,046.7—
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe2,7182,162.33,230.6—
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe2,5632,006.52,994.4—
11CanadaCANNorthern America2,5052,099.32,896.0—
12ItalyITASouthern Europe2,3832,117.72,578.7—
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2,3721,899.02,807.9—
14AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2,3531,834.12,833.6—
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2,3351,788.52,886.5—
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe2,3211,714.12,833.3—
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe2,2361,899.52,577.9—
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe2,2321,874.92,600.0—
19GreeceGRCSouthern Europe2,1811,849.82,427.2—
20CyprusCYPWestern Asia2,1361,696.72,493.4—
21SpainESPSouthern Europe1,9861,674.02,202.3—
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1,8711,791.61,940.3—
23IsraelISRWestern Asia1,783———
24FranceFRAWestern Europe1,7171,477.81,941.8—
25CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe1,4781,381.91,552.7—

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg3,914
  2. 2Singapore3,457
  3. 3Iceland3,152
  4. 4United States3,130
  5. 5Switzerland3,102

Lowest

  1. 78Malta4
  2. 77Serbia11
  3. 76Tajikistan101
  4. 75Sri Lanka249
  5. 74Tanzania268

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 792. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (2021 PPP $)

    HighestLuxembourg2,981.3

    LowestMalta4.1

    Middle country: 728.9

  • Men (2021 PPP $)

    HighestLuxembourg4,592.7

    LowestMalta4.1

    Middle country: 913.2

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −9countries joined / left
  • 71values changed, of 71 in both
  • 65 · 6rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Spain+ Greece+ Guyana+ Italy+ Panama+ Tanzania− DR Congo− Colombia− Ethiopia− Fiji− India− Kenya− Madagascar− Solomon Islands− Uganda

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 2006.

  • 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.

  • 102 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) (2006). Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/average-monthly-earnings/2006

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07Questions

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest average monthly earnings in Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006?

Luxembourg, at 3,914, of the 78 countries in the file.

What year does Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006 cover?

78.

Where can I download Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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