this Pandemic served for widening the pay gap dragging the province relative to the rest of the country. Although the end of ERTE and the gradual normalization of activity allowed last year average income state workers they would grow againafter parenthesis that appeared at the beginning of the pandemic, the truth is that evolution worse than the national averagewhich caused the difference in what they earned from each other to be larger than in 2019.
This is also reflected in the statistics. Labor Market and Pension in Tax Resources, which shows that last year Alicante wage earners average input 3,870 euros less than the country as a whole, or the same thing, they won 17.9% less. According to this research, prepared by the Tax Office based on data that companies transmit to their employees to withhold payroll, the difference was 3,427 euros, or 16.6%, before the arrival of the coronavirus.
Thus, after the decline in 2020, average annual income The number of workers employed in the province reached last year 17,649 Euros, 4.4% more Compared to the previous year and also above data for 2019, where the average earnings per employee was 17,139 euros. This would be good news if it weren’t for the fact that these data actually reflect the fact that Alicante wage earners lag a bit in this recovery, as Alicante’s revenue during the same period Spanish running set passed From 20,566 to 21.519 EurosThis has widened the gap between the one and the other.
In fact, Alicante has dropped and passed three places in the provincial rankings. to be tenth from the bottom with the lowest salary per worker to be seventhonly ahead of Jaén (15.190 Euros), Huelva (15.296), Badajoz (16.195), Almeria (16.220), Córdoba (16.670) and Cáceres (16.840).
Low employment quality
One explanation may come from his greater persistence. Workers in ERTE status While in 2021 much of the tourism industry is still intermittently affected by various restrictions, the reality is the percentage of workers in the province who were in this situation at some point during the year and6.9%, was quite similar to the national one at 6.1%, as reflected in the same study. In other words, the increase in the income gap can only be seen in other provinces. salaries have increased or new ones The work created was of better quality.
In this sense, it should be noted that statistics calculate. average annual income salaried, regardless of whether they work year-round or just a few months -as in many sectors such as tourism, nougat or shoemaking in the province- or whether they work part-time or full-time. Therefore, the amount is always lower than that offered by other sources such as the INE, which reflects average full-time salaries.
less than SMI
This methodology, based on real annual income, reveals, for example, the high percentage of residents of Alicante with really low incomes. so, until 45.9% of all residents in the province who had some form of paid employment last year they didn’t even earn the equivalent of the Minimum Interprofessional Salary during the year, i.e. less inputs 13,370 €. And about 55% of them did not even reach 6,700 euros, that is, half the SMI. very relevant situation different types of insecurity Everything that happens in the province, from the seasonality of many sectors, as mentioned earlier, to part-time work or the significant weight of the informal economy hidden from tax statistics.
Another facing 45.9% of Alicante residents earning less than their annual SMI equivalent 34.7% earns between one and two times this indicator – that is, Between 13,370 and 26,740 Euros-; a %12 come in this amount and 40,110 eurosY Only 7.4% of wage earners in the province exceed this figure..
Among the luckiest, 844 people from Alicante stand out, who earned more than 130,000 Euros last year; that’s 104 more than 2020.
Women earn 3,154 euros less than men
It is not only the regional gap that remains and even increases in the province after the pandemic. Data from the Tax Office also reflect the discrimination suffered by female Alicante workers, who earned an average of 3,154 euros less than men last year; this is 50 euros more than the previous year.
Specifically, the average declared earnings of female workers in Alicante was €19,108 for male workers, compared to €15,954 in 2021.
Differences by economic sector are also important. The highest-paid professionals in the province are those working in the banking and insurance sectors, with an annual average of €33,882, four times more than €8,890 declared by those working in personal and leisure services, including everything from hairdressers to cultural entertainers.
In addition, above-average workers in social services (health, education, etc.) earn an average of 25,242 euros; and the mining industry and water and electricity supplies at €24,398. Employees in the information and communication sector received 22,449 euros; those in the manufacturing industry, 18,144; commercial ones, 16,427; and commercial services, 14,704. In any case, it should be noted that the average includes part-time employees and those who work only a few months a year.
Source: Informacion
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