(Finance) – i real wages in Italy decreased by 8.7% compared to 2008recording the worst performance between the G20 countries. Despite an increase of 2.3% in 2024, Growth was not enough to compensate for the losses suffered in previous years due to high inflation. This is what from According to the world report on wages of the ILOpublished today.
The gender wage gap is 9.3%, one of the lowest in Europe, while migrant workers earn on average 26.3% less than national workers. THE The low income workers are more penalized by the loss of purchasing power, whose salary is eroded by the increase in the prices of essential goods such as accommodation, energy and food.
In Italy, where there is no minimum legal salary, The contractual wages have grown by 15% in the last decade, but in real terms they have undergone a loss of 5%further reducing the purchasing power of workers.