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Table 2 Mean of the median hourly national wages of the 16 HRH occupations, and its standard deviation, minimum, and maximum (wages in standardized USD, indexed to the 2011 level), max/min ratio, correlation coefficients of the national wage ranking of occupations with the overall wage ranking, and number of occupations with valid observations

From: Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries

 

Standardized hourly wages (USD)

Ratios and correlations

 
 

Mean wage

SD mean wage

Min. wage

Max. wage

Ratio max/min wage

Correlation with overall wage rank

Occupations with valid observations ( n )

Netherlands

25.91

12.27

17.65

64.90

3.68

0.88

16

United Kingdom

25.53

10.62

12.93

54.95

4.25

0.84

16

United States

25.06

16.71

10.54

71.01

6.74

0.87

14

South Africa

23.58

11.73

5.52

49.59

8.98

0.87

15

Belgium

22.03

14.79

12.17

72.85

5.98

0.91

16

Germany

19.53

5.25

12.14

29.85

2.46

0.69

15

Sweden

18.86

4.13

15.26

29.97

1.96

0.68

11

Spain

16.19

5.98

8.01

32.59

4.07

0.81

15

Finland

14.59

4.66

10.77

28.66

2.66

0.86

14

Chile

13.50

7.53

5.53

33.23

6.01

0.88

15

Colombia

11.71

5.50

6.07

26.49

4.37

0.54

15

Mexico

11.49

4.81

4.70

21.51

4.57

0.65

16

Czech Republic

10.64

2.42

7.03

14.41

2.05

0.81

15

Argentina

9.89

3.26

4.60

16.07

3.50

0.85

16

India

7.69

4.87

2.45

17.68

7.22

0.50

14

Belarus

7.54

2.86

2.73

13.11

4.80

0.75

16

Brazil

6.20

4.03

2.00

19.31

9.66

0.91

16

Poland

4.93

1.34

2.77

7.68

2.77

0.67

14

Russian Fed.

4.12

1.72

1.90

7.17

3.79

0.73

15

Ukraine

3.25

0.90

1.83

4.67

2.55

0.48

16

Total

14.06

10.55

1.83

72.85

39.81

 

300

  1. Source: Data from the WageIndicator survey 2008–2011 (weighted within countries), aggregated for 16 HRH occupations in 20 countries (n=300 occupation/country cells, which are not weighted across countries for the size of the national population or the national HRH workforce).