Spanish people earn less than some EU neighbors
16:16, 19 January 2010
MADRID. January 19. KAZINFORM. The average annual salary of Spanish people is 21,500 euros (31,000 U.S. dollars), less than that of some people in the European Union, according to a study published recently and conducted by Adecco and the IESE Business School between 2003 and 2008; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The sum is much smaller than the average salary of British people who earn 46,058 euros (66,295 dollars) per year, of people in the Netherlands whose average salary is 42,720 euros (61,500 dollars) and of Germans whose salary is 40,914 euros (59,000 dollars), a study carried out in 14 European countries revealed.
Nevertheless, Spaniards earn more than Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians and Bulgarians who have to get by on salaries of less than 10,000 euros (14,400 dollars) a year; Kazinform cites Xinhua.