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

New workplaces
Reorganised
Old workplaces
Median
wages/salaries
112
71 % 84 % +13
Mean wages/salaries 62 % 85 % +23
Median
wages/salaries
83 % 86 % +3
Mean wages/salaries 86 % 87 % +1
Median
wages/salaries
84 % 88 % +4
Mean wages/salaries 85 % 81 % -4
In Lithuania, the net salary gaps between men and women have narrowed in
both the public and the private sector. In 2002, however, the private sector was
still lagging behind the public sector. The differences at the new and old
workplaces, too, are fairly small - smaller than in the other Baltic countries.
The women's median salaries in 1998 amounted to 77 per cent of the men's. In
2002, the proportion had grown to 91 per cent. In terms of the mean values,
the result followed the same trend. In 1998, the ratio of the women's mean salary
to the men's was 76 per cent, and the corresponding proportion in 2002
was 83 per cent. What is referred to here is the total net salary remaining in
hand, which may consist of wages from several workplaces.
On the whole, the income gaps between women and men in Lithuania have
diminished, because the average salaries of women have grown considerably
and the men's, on the other hand, have stayed the same or even fallen slightly.
The salary differences between men and women in Lithuania have definitely
been smaller than in Latvia and Estonia.
WOMEN'S AND MEN'S NET SALARIES 1998 AND 2002
Deflated to 1998 price level using consumer price index (lit/month)
1998 2002 Change Change
(litas) (%)
MEN Median 650 640 -10 -1.5
Mean 766 761 -5 -0.7
WOMEN Median 500 582 +82 +16.4
Mean 580 635 +55 +9.5