The wage gap between sectors grows in 2021. For cooks and waiters the most profitable city is Venice
L’Italy certainly does not shine for high wages and meritocracy. Very often there is an abyss between intellectual and / or manual effort and economic compensation. In fact, according to a note by applavoro.it, reported by the news agency To say, the our country, at the European level, is placed in one intermediate area of the ranking as for the value of the average annual salaries. And certainly therepandemic effect did not help improve the situation: over the past two years the Covid he ended up impact heavily also on the world of work and consequently on the monthly wages, feeding the wage gap between sectors.
In fact, according to the survey conducted by applavoro.it, the portal that aims at meritocracy and connects job supply and demand, on the average monthly salaries communicated by the subscribers to the platform in the year 2021, it is noted how some sectors remained highly profitable thanks also to the high specialization and responsibility, while others, on the other hand, continue to trudge.
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“Unfortunately from our data it is still evident a gap between salaries, measured on the same professions but in different parts of the country, he explains Marco Contemi entrepreneur and founder of the portal applavoro.it. “This difference in height facilitates the creation of increasingly disadvantageous work situationsand, especially in areas of Italy where the job offer is scarce, and therefore we often meet forced to accept unfair conditions precisely out of necessity and lack of valid alternatives “.
Leaving aside the management roles and professionals, in 2021 once again the sector that has earned the most according to the data of applavoro.it it was the commercial / tertiary sector with commercial agents to lead the way. Theirs average monthly salary he wandered about 2.300 euro. To follow we have the skilled workers with approx 1.450 euro. Not bad either cooks that after a very dark 2020 with the closure of the activities, they rose last year and returned to the average salaries of the pre-pandemic era with about 1.400 euro.
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But, the note continues, next to these who have been the best paid sectors in 2021 there is also the sad reality of those less paid. All’last place we find the call center operators, a job that offers a fixed base and an extra earnings on commission and that very often is underpaid compared to the hours worked. The average salary for them was around 750 euros per month. It didn’t go much better for the secretaries or the barista that they barely managed to take home € 1,000. Numbers that reflect what is the national scenario of Italy last year. Then, as has been the case for decades, the gap between territories, especially in the North and South, persists in terms of working well-being and average salary.
Nurses earn more in Naples, clerks in Milan, skilled workers in Palermo
Analyzing the data even more in detail of the individual sectors divided by locality, it was once again highlighted how in some areas, people are better paid for the same job. One could say for example that those who work in the restaurant world as cooks or waiters, for them Venice is the most profitable province with 1,600 euros average salary for the former and 1,400 for the latter. For office workers, on the other hand, Milan is at the top with around 1,450 euros per month. But the differences are not only in favor of the cities of Northern Italy.
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The nurses for example, a sector in great demand especially in this historical era appears earn more in Naples with around 1,600 euros. Same goes for the skilled workers that a Palermo they even earned 1,800 euros a month, probably due to a lower availability of highly specialized workforce in the area.
From this analysis then – they conclude from applavoro.it- we can see the strong discrepancy that exists between the various job categories. A deficit that could be overcome by introducing the minimum wage already adopted by several states in Europe but which in fact is still a utopia in Italy.
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