Euro27 Countries Average Wages

I can believe it - its a simple average, not typical salary

thats before tax, and includes employees and employers social security contributions - strip all those out and prob equates to an average of more like € 8 take home

In my experience, minimum wage (or marginally below) is the average wage offered for most jobs here.  If you then take off tax and Social Security.......

But sureley George, if they wanted to do this properley they would have had to get details from the Tax office and based it upon a per capita head count ??

or is this just the way to make numbers appear as they want them to

Julian

not per capita, as that would include people not working

it should be

total wages & salaries/(number of hours worked)

a few people on high salaries boost the average, and typically the simple average hourly rate is somewhat above the typical hourly rate

"The Average... YES AVERAGE Salary in Malta is €11.90 an Hour.... This equates to approx €25,000 (€24,752) a year based upon a 40 hour week."

it will be based on hours worked - assuming average person works 37 1/2 hours a week, and for 46 weeks a year,(assume 4 weeks holiday, 10 public holidays) = € 20,500 - take off 10% employers soc sec contributions and thats a gross salary of € 18,000