Dataset
Average hourly earnings of employees
owid.average-hourly-earnings
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About
Gross remuneration for time worked or work done, vacation, and other types of paid leave.
Cite as: International Labour Organization (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Average hourly earnings of employees - Total – ILO” [dataset]. International Labour Organization, “ILOSTAT” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1990–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-02-03
- Units
- international-$ in 2021 prices
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-hourly-earnings
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| average_hourly_earnings_employees_by_sex__sex_total__classif1_currency__2021_ppp_dollar | number | Average hourly earnings of employees - Total (international-$ in 2021 prices) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |