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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2013

2013, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2013 covers 98 countries on 3 measures. Belgium is highest, at 5,075.731; Malawi is lowest, at 177.121. The middle country reads 1,201.718. Against 2012, 89 values changed (71 up, 18 down), 9 countries joined, 10 left.

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Average Monthly Earnings of Employees · Data for 2013

HighestBelgium

5,075.731

LowestMalawi

177.121

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2013, 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 98 countries · select a heading to sort

Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2013: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe5,075.7314,219.45,896.03—
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe4,946.0624,148.45,570.62—
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,517.7033,724.95,279.67—
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe4,403.9983,298.65,372.22—
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,236.5323,242.95,023.81—
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3,939.5562,934.64,847.68—
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,876.4383,385.24,384.64—
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe3,817.5963,408.84,213.89—
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe3,753.1683,122.14,446.26—
10United StatesUSANorthern America3,578.7833,057.54,066.92—
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe3,555.0243,074.74,040.82—
12BermudaBMUNorthern America3,538.5973,464.93,600.31—
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,337.0173,134.43,526.16—
14Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia3,227.0383,183.13,233.98—
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia3,191.9502,346.53,632.99—
16QatarQATWestern Asia3,188.7362,807.13,323.32—
17GermanyDEUWestern Europe3,185.2612,387.13,909.87—
18AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand3,086.7302,364.83,759.21—
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia3,050.1772,527.03,575.39—
20CanadaCANNorthern America3,018.0882,577.73,450.19—
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,008.0462,337.03,666.78—
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2,968.7652,785.93,137.07—
23JapanJPNEastern Asia2,774.1712,182.23,058.44—
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe2,677.0952,275.82,946.49—
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2,595.0312,039.63,158.60—

02In 2013

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Belgium5,075.731
  2. 2Luxembourg4,946.062
  3. 3Norway4,517.703
  4. 4Netherlands4,403.998
  5. 5Austria4,236.532

Lowest

  1. 98Malawi177.121
  2. 97Ethiopia187.774
  3. 96Cambodia334.514
  4. 95Mali356.927
  5. 94Indonesia375.586

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1,201.718. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (2021 PPP $)

    HighestBelgium4,219.4

    LowestMalawi136.9

    Middle country: 1,099.7

  • Men (2021 PPP $)

    HighestBelgium5,896.03

    LowestMalawi202.40

    Middle country: 1,321.16

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

  • +9 / −10countries joined / left
  • 89values changed, of 89 in both
  • 71 · 18rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Norway4,071.260 → 4,517.703+446.443
  • Qatar2,865.551 → 3,188.736+323.185
  • Nicaragua478.633 → 747.424+268.791
  • Belgium4,815.438 → 5,075.731+260.293
  • Luxembourg4,693.505 → 4,946.062+252.557

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Ethiopia+ Ghana+ Kyrgyzstan+ Mali+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Serbia+ Timor-Leste− DR Congo− Gambia− India− Madagascar− Montenegro− Niger− Seychelles− Tanzania− Uganda− Samoa

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2013.

  • 104 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

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International Labour Organization (ILO) (2013). Average Monthly Earnings of Employees, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/average-monthly-earnings/2013

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