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Wages up 4.5 per cent
Full-time employees in hotels and restaurants had average monthly earnings, excluding over-time payments, of NOK 25 900 as per 1 October 2008. This was an increase of approximately NOK 1 100 or 4.5 per cent from the same period in the previous year.
Full-time employees in hotels had average monthly earnings of NOK 26 200. By comparison, the monthly earnings of full-time employees in restaurants and bars were NOK 24 900, while in canteens and catering the monthly earnings were NOK 28 300.
Annual earnings
The average estimated annual earnings for full-time employees in hotels and restaurants were estimated to be NOK 306 200 in 2008. This is an approximate increase of NOK 12 100 or 4.1 per cent from the same period in 2007. By comparison, the increase in annual earnings from 2006 to 2007 was 4.7 per cent.
On the statistical basisThe statistics are based on a sample of enterprises with 14 314 full-time employees and 19 068 part-time employees. According to figures from the national accounts for the third quarter of 2008, the statistics cover about 79 200 employees in hotels and restaurants. The term average monthly earnings is the main term in Statistics Norway's wage statistics. Monthly earnings cover basic salaries, variable additional allowances and bonuses. Payment for overtime work is not included. Estimations of earningsThe average annual earnings are estimated by using information from wage statistics from at least two years, and the quarterly wage index. The increase in annual earnings differs somewhat from the increase in monthly earnings. Monthly earnings are compared at a specific date each year, while the change in annual earnings is from one calendar year to the next. Annual earnings do not include payment for overtime work. |
Tables:
- Table 1 Employees in hotels and restaurants per full-time eqvivalent per 1 October 2007 and 2008. NOK and percentage change
- Table 2 Full-time employees in hotels and restaurants. Average monthly earnings, by division and occupational group. 1 October 2008. NOK
- Table 3 Full-time employees in hotels and restaurants . Average monthly earnings, by group per 1 October 2008. NOK
- Table 4 Full-time employees in Hotels and restaurants. Estimated average annual earnings, by division 2007 and 2008. NOK
The statistics is published with Earnings.
Additional information
Structural changes within the division along with the outcome of collective bargaining would have a certain effect on the wage increase being measured.
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