He salary real registered an interannual increase of 4.6%, the highest figure in the last 12 months, according to the Average Salary Index(IMS) that prepares the INE, which established a nominal improvement of 8.87% since August of last year.
In this way, the rise of salary real is 1% above the same month in 2019, that is, in the pre-pandemic, for which the decrease in the inflation, which was at its lowest level in the last 18 years.
According to him IMS, the monthly increase of salary without taking into account the CPI was 0.36%, while it has accumulated 8.29% so far this year, reaching a general index of 445.02.
From the report of INE it emerged that the private sector was the one that grew the most, with a monthly variation of 0.54%, mainly due to the incidence of the Manufacturing Industry section (0.20%), Wholesale and retail trade (0.12%) and Transportation, storage and communications (0.04%). On a year-on-year basis, the improvement is 9.89%.
On the other hand, the increase in the public sector, which reached 0.05%, with an incidence of 0.06% in the Central Government and public companies and departmental governments remaining stable. Thus, in the last 12 months it has achieved an improvement of 8.3%.
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Salary improvements by category
When investigating by job category in the private sector, the wages With the highest percentage of increase in the last 12 months were those of Social and health services, with 10.25%, followed by Construction (9.98%) and Hotels and restaurants (9.90%).
A little further back came Business and Rental Real Estate Activities, with an improvement of 8.86%, Manufacturing Industries (8.24%), Wholesale and Retail Trade (7.17%), Transportation, Storage and Communications (6 .99%), Teaching (6.83%) and Financial intermediation (6.46%).
In the public sector, wages In the Central Government they had an increase of 10.69% since August 2022, while those of Public Companies reached 8.93% and those of the Departmental Governments reached a positive variation of 8.49%.
Source: Ambito