The hotel industry raises salaries by 22% due to the lack of waiters, but it still pays the worst.

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This businessmen hostel they scratch their pockets to find the waiters, cooks and bartenders they are missing. there was restoration economic sector that increases wages the most its employees… Rome wasn’t built in a day, and despite decades of low wages, the hospitality industry continues to thrive. the union that pays the worst of its workers, along with the horticulturist.

According to the latest 2022 labor cost survey released by INE this Friday, salaries for food and beverage service professionals are up 22.5% compared to 2021 and are 9% higher than before the covid outbreak. Again, A waiter’s salary is half that of the average Spanish worker.. Based on an average salary of EUR 13,386 gross per year in hospitality (or EUR 956 gross monthly on 14 payments). The average salary in the economy as a whole is €25,353 gross annually (or €1,810 gross monthly in 14 payments), up 4.5% last year.

Salaries in the hospitality industry are on average, even below the amount interprofessional minimum wage (SMI). This is mainly due to many part time contracts What’s up. In other words, not all waiters earn less than minimum wage, but rather work fewer hours a week, less than they would work 40 hours a week with SMI at the end of the month. In fact, the coalition government’s policy to increase SMI significantly—to nearly 50% since Pedro Sánchez has been in Moncloa—has caused the average payroll in the hotel industry since 2018 to remain below SMI’s monthly amount.

Hospitality, cross; computing face

While hoteliers are now starting to raise salaries to find work, this struggle to attract professionals in other industries goes back a long way. For several years now, companies in Spain and the rest of the West have been waging an underground battle to attract computer scientists. In industry jargon, they often call him “technological talent” or “technicians.”

and that struggle to attract and retain professionals Cybersecurity professionals or data engineers with sufficient skills to program, design and analyze code, among others, are forcing companies to dig their pockets and offer increasingly higher salaries.

Payrolls of computer scientists are 20% higher than before the covid epidemic. Based on an average annual gross salary of 32,521 euros (or 2,322 gross monthly in 14 payments). The average salary in the economy as a whole is €25,353 gross annually (or €1,810 gross monthly on 14 payments) and has increased by 8% since covid, meaning less than half of those computer profiles.

and that The bubbling of wages is not incompatible with a significant increase in the number of employees. in the industry. Insatiable companies hire more and pay better salaries. In the note of the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security, which evaluated the employment data for June, “The increase in employment compared to the pre-pandemic period is dynamic, especially in sectors with high added value such as Informatics and Telecommunication, where the number of participations increased by 22.7 percent compared to the pre-pandemic period.”

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