Wages and Income - Statistics Iceland

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Wage statistics are mainly based on data from the Icelandic Survey on Wages, Earnings and Labour Cost. The target population contains all business units (company, institution or municipality) with more than 10 employees. In the survey, data is collected directly from business unit through the software used for calculating wages. Every month, a business unit in the survey sends information containing detailed information on the structure of earnings and labour cost items for all their employees, as well as background data on the employees and the business unit..

Official wage statistics 2018 5 April 2019
Analysis on pay gap by background 2008-2017 29 March 2019
Methodology of the Icelandic Wage Index 16 August 2018
Analysis on gender pay gap 2008–2016 7 March 2018
Income and education 2014 22 June 2015

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The wage index has increased by 5.5% in the last 12 months 24 April 2019

Immigrants have around 8% lower earnings than locals 29 March 2019

Quarterly total wage index 2018Q4 28 March 2019

Monthly wages index in February 2019 and related indices 22 March 2019

Analysis on pay gap by background postponed 26 February 2019

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