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Wage and salary earners' nominal earnings level rose by 3.9 per cent in January to March 2024 from one year ago

release | Index of wage and salary earnings 2024, 1st quarter

Change

New Classification of Sectors is adopted in the statistics and new database tables are published.
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According to Statistics Finland’s preliminary data, the index of wage and salary earnings, which measures the growth in the nominal earnings of full-time wage and salary earners, rose by 3.9 per cent in January to March 2024 when compared with the respective period in 2023. Over the same period, the real earnings level of wage and salary earners rose by 1.1 per cent because the rise in earnings level was faster than that in consumer prices.

Key selections

  • Examined by sector, the nominal earnings level of wage and salary earners rose most in wellbeing services county administration in January to March 2024.
  • The index for regular earnings, which better describes permanent changes in the level of earnings, rose more than the index of wage and salary earnings in all sectors in January to March 2024.
  • In January to March 2024, the real earnings of wage and salary earners were clearly lower than the peak reached in 2021.

Change

New Classification of Sectors is adopted in the statistics and new database tables are published.
Read more about the change

Database tables

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Updated database tables
13ru
Classifications used:
  • Sector
  • Base of payment
  • Gender
Period:
quarter
Statistics:
Updated:
13rv
Classifications used:
  • Sector
  • Base of payment
  • Gender
Period:
annual
Statistics:
Updated:
13dz
Classifications used:
  • Base of payment
  • Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008
Period:
quarter
Statistics:
Updated:
13ea
Classifications used:
  • Base of payment
  • Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008
Period:
annual
Statistics:
Updated:
11zt
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    Period:
    quarter
    Statistics:
    Updated:
    122j
    Classifications used:
      Period:
      annual
      Statistics:
      Updated:
      11zu
      Classifications used:
      • Sector
      • Gender
      Period:
      quarter
      Statistics:
      Updated:
      122k
      Classifications used:
      • Sector
      • Gender
      Period:
      annual
      Statistics:
      Updated:
      New database tables
      14sj
      Classifications used:
      • Sector
      • Base of payment
      • Gender
      Period:
      quarter
      Statistics:
      Updated:
      14sk
      Classifications used:
      • Sector
      • Base of payment
      • Gender
      Period:
      annual
      Statistics:
      Updated:

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