The Salary Index registered an increase of 5.7% in April 2023 and was below inflation (8.4%)as reported this Friday, June 30, by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
In April, salaries in the public administration showed an increase of 4.1%, in the private sector the increase was 6.9% and in the informal sector 4.8%.
Thus, in the first four months of the year, and against accumulated inflation of 32%, the index increased 29.1%, as a result of a 30.6% rise in the salaries of public employees; 28.9% in the salaries of workers in the private sector and 27.1% in the unregistered.
In year-on-year terms, wages lost against inflation: they increased an average of 103.8% while prices advanced 108.8%.
This as a consequence of increases of 106.4% in the registered private sector, 114.7% in the public sector and 77.5% in the unregistered private sector.
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It should be noted that in the first quarter, according to INDEC’s Permanent Household Survey (EPH), the average income of the salaried population (9,595,073 people) was $120,973. In the case of wage earners with a retirement discount, it was $151,773 (+90% year-on-year) and for those without a retirement discount, median income was in the $65,657 (+79.2% year-on-year).
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