salary range analysis

Analysis and Forecasting Group | Group for Analysis and Forecasting | GAP [Abbr.]

Expert Panel for Foliar Analysis of ICP Forests | Foliar Expert Panel of the ICP Forests

Working Party No.1 on Macro-Economic and Structural Policy Analysis [ Working Party on Macro-Economic and Structural Policy Analysis ]

Panel of Experts on an Equitable Wage

Working Party No. 2 on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics [ Working Party on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics ]

The 22 EU Member States that have national minimum wages can be divided into three main groups based on the level in euro.

13. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems related to the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; stresses in this regard that an adequate wage policy is vital for maintaining internal demand, and that wage increases should therefore be better adapted to changes in productivity; maintains that there must be a reference to the importance of increasing wages, especially in countries where wages are below the poverty threshold, but it must be made with ...[+++]out undermining the subsidiarity principle; recalls that minimum wages differ substantially between Member States, and reiterates its request for a study on this issue, including an analysis of the differences in purchasing powers between Member States; encourages the Member States to set minimum wages in accordance with national legislation and practices and to consider their impact on in-work poverty, household income, aggregate demand and job creation;

49. Notes that recommendations have been made to several Member States regarding wages; stresses that wages are, above all, the income that workers need to live on; stresses that the Commission’s practice of determining wage formation and wage levels in programme countries may increase the risk of in-work poverty or wage inequalities which harm low-income groups; calls on the Commission to step up policy guidance to those Member States in which wages have stagnated in comparison with productivity levels, while respecting the autonomy of the social partners, as protected inter alia in Articles 152 and 153(5) of the Treaty on the Functi ...[+++]oning of the European Union (TFEU);

17. Notes that recommendations have been made to several Member States regarding wages; stresses that wages are, above all, the income that workers need to live on; stresses that the Commission’s practice of determining wage formation and wage levels in programme countries may increase the risk of in-work poverty or wage inequalities which harm low-income groups; calls on the Commission to step up policy guidance to those Member States in which wages have stagnated in comparison with productivity levels, while respecting the autonomy of the social partners, as protected inter alia in Articles 152 and 153(5) of the Treaty on the Functi ...[+++]oning of the European Union (TFEU);