Wages and Income - Hagstofa

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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..

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
Earnings in the private sector by occupational group 2013 8 May 2014
Wage index 2013 24 March 2014

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Total wage index 3rd quarter 2018 5 February 2019

Unadjusted Gender Pay Gap 2017 28 January 2019

The wage index in December 2018 is essentially unchanged from the previous month 23 January 2019

Monthly wages index in November 2018 20 December 2018

Income increases with education 19 December 2018

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