Topic · World Bank · WHO · OECD
Labor & Wages
Average monthly earnings, weekly hours worked and PPP for 150+ countries.
- 3
- Indicators
- 208
- Countries with data
Labor & Wages · thin shelf
3 labor & wages indicators on a narrow shelf - Luxembourg tops average monthly earnings.
- 3
- labor & wages indicators
- #1
- Luxembourg · Average Monthly Earnings
- narrow
- shelf vs other topics
Each indicator below shows the current top five; open any one for the full world ranking with the data year for every country.
High-income share among 208 countries with labor & wages data
World Bank income-group counts among countries that have at least one ranking row for an indicator in this topic. Segments sum to 208 - coverage shape, not a living-standard ranking.
Reading Labor & Wages
This is a narrow labor & wages shelf - only 3 indicators - so each card below carries more weight than on a wide topic. Treat the set as one reading, not 3 unrelated headlines.
Labor & Wages currently publishes 3 indicators (Average Monthly Earnings, Average Weekly Hours Worked, PPP Conversion Factor (GDP)) from World Bank Open Data, ILO ILOSTAT. Average monthly earnings, weekly hours worked and PPP for 150+ countries. Luxembourg currently leads average monthly earnings at $8,513/mo.
Among the 208 countries with at least one labor & wages ranking row, high-income economies are a large share of the coverage set. Sparse shelves like this often skew toward reporters that publish on schedule - missing rows are unpublished, never filled.
Cite the year on each full ranking when you reuse a figure. We do not impute or carry forward stale labor & wages values - a blank cell means the source has not published yet.
Source: World Bank Open Data · Source: ILO ILOSTAT
Nearby shelves by indicator count
Closest topic widths to this 3-indicator shelf (not a fixed roster).
- Environment · 5 indicators
- Infrastructure · 5 indicators
- Education · 6 indicators
Average Monthly Earnings
USD/month| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | $8,513/mo |
| 1 | United States | $5,985/mo |
| 2 | Belgium | $6,755/mo |
| 2 | France | $4,656/mo |
| 3 | Iceland | $6,349/mo |
Average Weekly Hours Worked
hours/week| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bhutan | 54.4 hrs/wk |
| 1 | China | 46.1 hrs/wk |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 50.8 hrs/wk |
| 2 | India | 45.7 hrs/wk |
| 3 | Sudan | 50.7 hrs/wk |
PPP Conversion Factor (GDP)
LCU per intl $| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iran, Islamic Rep. | 118268.07 |
| 1 | Indonesia | 4747.91 |
| 2 | Lebanon | 23736.79 |
| 2 | Korea, Rep. | 809.27 |
| 3 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 11049.72 |
Next read: Environment (5 indicators) · full average monthly earnings ranking . Reporting years differ by country and indicator; unavailable values are omitted rather than estimated.
What to do with these Labor & Wages indicators
A single shelf rarely tells the whole story -- use it as a starting point, not a verdict.
- Open the full average monthly earnings ranking to see every country, not just the top rows shown here. Average Monthly Earnings ranking
- Put any two countries side by side across every tracked indicator. Compare countries
- Browse the environment shelf (5 indicators) for the next adjacent topic. Environment
Reporting years differ by country and indicator; unavailable values are omitted rather than estimated.
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