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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016

2016, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016 covers 104 countries on 3 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 5,391.443; DR Congo is lowest, at 297.621. The middle country reads 1,272.647. Against 2015, 91 values changed (74 up, 17 down), 13 countries joined, 7 left.

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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees · Data for 2016

HighestLuxembourg

5,391.443

LowestDR Congo

297.621

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, 2016, 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 104 countries · select a heading to sort

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe5,391.4434,600.076,013—
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe5,347.2174,518.996,116—
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,753.1973,939.355,535—
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe4,572.3963,507.625,531—
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,510.1543,513.345,352—
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,295.7723,800.734,818—
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe4,184.8773,188.145,097—
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe4,027.7543,647.984,396—
9BahrainBHRWestern Asia3,937.9573,417.044,459—
10United StatesUSANorthern America3,834.6013,284.474,346—
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe3,820.3793,313.154,325—
12IrelandIRLNorthern Europe3,774.6043,151.834,400—
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,678.8263,449.353,847—
14QatarQATWestern Asia3,609.7703,292.713,735—
15Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia3,488.2513,297.843,519—
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe3,481.8982,687.654,218—
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia3,464.9452,537.444,000—
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,454.5252,852.434,021—
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand3,307.6362,627.993,942—
20CanadaCANNorthern America3,214.7392,763.253,656—
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe3,089.0752,866.023,285—
22CyprusCYPWestern Asia3,070.6792,582.203,547—
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe3,069.6302,708.193,335—
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2,926.0292,402.623,424—
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2,755.5502,174.753,348—

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg5,391.443
  2. 2Belgium5,347.217
  3. 3Norway4,753.197
  4. 4Netherlands4,572.396
  5. 5Austria4,510.154

Lowest

  1. 104DR Congo297.621
  2. 103Kenya348.798
  3. 102Mali355.049
  4. 101Indonesia427.902
  5. 100Moldova443.793

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1,272.647. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −7countries joined / left
  • 91values changed, of 91 in both
  • 74 · 17rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ DR Congo+ Fiji+ Jordan+ Kenya+ Liberia+ Saint Lucia+ Maldives+ Namibia+ Suriname+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste− Cabo Verde− Ghana− Madagascar− Myanmar− Montenegro− Puerto Rico− Togo

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 2016.

  • 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.

  • 112 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) (2016). Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/average-monthly-earnings/2016

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07Questions

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest average monthly earnings in Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016?

Luxembourg, at 5,391.443, of the 104 countries in the file.

What year does Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016 cover?

104.

Where can I download Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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