Estonia Stuck Between Wage Range Trends and Inequalities

According to some data published today by the Estonian Tax and Custom Board, the only wage range that recently registered an increase in number of employees is the one that includes salaries between 3.000 and 5.000 EEK.The group that seemed to feel the crisis the most is the one with wages included in the 20.000 EEK  -30.000 EEK range while the one with the biggest number of employees – a total of 148.456 people – is the one that groups salaries between 5.000 and 8.000 Estonian Kroons.Examining the number of employees in the country, the Board indicated that it has fallen by 13% while, on comparison to 2008, the number of enterprises fell by 9.1% in an y-o-y perspective.Among the population, the most disadvantaged category in terms of wages seems to be the one including Russian-speaking women since : “While an average Estonian woman earns approximately 70 per cent of the average pay earned by an average Estonian man, an average Russian-speaking woman in Estonia earns approximately 55 per cent of t ...