Alicante workers earned 8% more last year but are still far from average

The latest statistics prepared by the Tax Office based on the withholding taxes applied to companies’ payrolls show the following: average income per employee They reached the state last year 19,112 euros, i.e. 8.3% more It was at 17,649 euros compared to the previous year. This is a very important advance that has few examples. Especially to find a similar increase We need to go back to 2007 It is the last one before the burst of the real estate bubble, in which earnings for Alicante workers increased by 8%.

In any case, it is worth clarifying that: This does not mean that every worker experienced this level of increase. on your payslip – in fact the average increase agreed in the deal was 3.55% – but what this reflects is the improvement experienced by the situation as a whole.

Since it is an annual average, many situations affect the final figure. For example, if a person only worked during the summer months, when calculating the average they would count the same as someone who was busy all year, reducing the resulting amount. In this case, the opposite situation occurred last year.

Although the Tax Office study does not include any specifics and is limited to presenting data, it is enough to remember that this is in 2022. Labor reform came into force This triggered indefinite hiring and reduced temporary employment. In addition, according to EPA data, up to 96% of the occupancy increase recorded in the province, it was full time. In other words, more people were working, for longer hours and in better conditions.

Another important fact in the same sense is this: Percentage of employees who did not earn even the equivalent of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage during the year, a category that includes all those part-time or seasonal work situations (otherwise it is illegal for someone to earn below the SMI). A group that was scaled back last year. Thus, while up to 46% of provincial employees were in this situation in 2021, this figure will increase in 2022. was five points lower. And this was despite the fact that the minimum wage increased by 4% to 14,000 euros gross per year.

national average

The strong recovery last year made it possible to slightly reduce the still quite high gap between the incomes of Alicante residents and the incomes of all Spanish workers. Like this Average salary income in Spain was there 22,781 euros, 3,669 euros more than Alicante in fact, it is at the bottom of the classification among Spanish provinces. In particular, it occupies tenth position from the bottombehind only the provinces of Cuenca, Extremadura, and the Andalusian borders of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, and Jaén.

Looking at the distribution by sectors, employees banking and insurance They remain the best-paid group in the state, with an average annual income of 33,782 euros. There are people working behind this. social services –including health and education- 28,687 euros; and those extractive industry, electricity and water supply companies, According to the information available to the Tax Office, people received 25,253 euros.

On the other hand, the lowest incomes are those declared by workers. personal services, Services worth €10,780, such as hospitality, domestic employment or hairdressing, are the result of greater temporality and bias recorded by these professionals. agricultureWith 10,957 euros.