Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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WOMEN'S SALARIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF MEN'S IN 1998 AND
2002, CALCULATED FROM THE MEDIAN AND MEAN SALARIES 2
Ratio of women's salaries to men's (%)
1998 2002
Change
(%)
All wage earners
Median wages/salaries
Mean wages/salaries
63 %
63 %
69 %
71 %
+6
+8
Private sector
Public sector
Median wages/salaries 61 % 63 % +2
Mean wages/salaries 66 % 70 % +4
Median wages/salaries 63 % 73 % +10
Mean wages/salaries 63 % 73 % +10
Median wages/salaries 56 % 63 % +7
New workplaces Mean wages/salaries 61 % 71 % +10
Reorganised Median wages/salaries 71 % 70 % -1
workplaces Mean wages/salaries 64 % 64 % 0
Old workplaces
Median wages/salaries
Mean wages/salaries
70 %
73 %
77 %
77 %
+7
+4
The salary gap between men and women has clearly diminished more in the
public than in the private sector. In median terms, it was 10 per cent smaller in
the public sector. The percentage ratio of women's salaries to men's salaries is
definitely the smallest at new workplaces established after the regaining of
independence, and clearly the greatest at the old workplaces.
The reduction in the salary gaps results from the fact that the women's salaries
have improved more than the men's. On the basis of deflated salaries, it can be
seen that - unlike the women's - the men's real salaries according to the median
have decreased slightly, and the mean values have decreased more. At the beginning
of 2002, the monthly salary that the women were receiving in hand
was on average about 1100 krones less compared with the men. Three years
earlier the gap was about 1300 – 1500 krones.
2 The percentages have been calculated from the net salaries, which have not been
adjusted to account for the change in consumer prices.