The wage disparity between private sector workers in northern and southern Italy is stark. While the average gross monthly salary in the North is around 2,000 euros, in the South it is no more than 1,350 euros. In relative terms, this translates into a gap of about 50% in favor of northern workers, which is around 8,450 euros per year more. This difference is also reflected in the thirteenth month salary, which is paid in the month of December. This picture comes from an analysis conducted by the CGIA Research Office.
In 2023, the wage bill will be 411 billion.
Despite more than half a century of the abolition of wage cages in 1972 and the application of National Collective Labor Agreements (CCNL), wage differences between different Italian regions remain significant, even if homogeneity has been aimed at the intrasectoral level. partially achieved.
This disparity mainly depends on factors like cost of living And productivity, more in the North, and more in the South through the incidence of precarious contracts such as involuntary, seasonal or intermittent part-time. Furthermore, the highest average salaries, typically in multinationals, large industrial groups and banking, finance and insurance institutions, are mainly concentrated in large urban areas in the North, leaving the South with small and medium-sized enterprises. More is added than reality. SMEs).
In 2023, total wages in Italy reached 17.3 million private employees 411.3 billion euros. This figure corresponds to an average gross monthly salary of 1,820 euros, which is 3.5% higher than in 2022. However, the inflation rate rose to 5.7 percent in the same year.
It is interesting to note that more than 60 percent of total wages were allocated to workers in northern Italy, confirming that the distribution of wages is strongly unbalanced in favor of this region of the country.
High salaries in Milan, Monza and Via Emilia.
Milan Confirms itself as the geographical area with the highest average salary in Italy. In 2023, private employees in the capital of Lombardy received an average monthly salary 2.642 euros. Monza-Brianza follows with 2,218 euros and the provinces along the Via Emilia, including Parma (2,144 euros), Modena (2,129 euros), Bologna (2,123 euros) and Reggio Emilia (2,072 euros).
In the national ranking of 107 provinces, the first place in the south is Chety, which ranks 55th with an average salary of 1,598 euros per month. On the opposite front, among the provinces with the lowest salaries we find Trapani (1,143 euros), Cosenza (1,140 euros) and Nuovo (1,129 euros). It is followed by Vibo Valentia, where the average monthly salary of employees is only 1,030 euros.
- Lombardy: 2.254 Euros
- Emilia-Romagna: 1.960 Euros
- Piedmont: 1.957 Euros
- Veneto: 1.884 Euros
- Trentino-Alto-Adige: 1.873 Euros
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia: 1.862 Euros
- Lazio: 1.859 Euros
- Liguria: 1.793 Euros
- Tuscany: 1.722 Euros
- Umbria: 1.615 Euros
- Marche: 1.612 Euros
- Aosta Valley: 1.532 Euros
- Abruzzo: 1.508 Euros
- Basilicata: 1.433 Euros
- Molise: 1.397 Euros
- Sardinia: 1.357 Euros
- Puglia: 1.356 Euros
- Campania: 1.347 Euros
- Sicily: 1.318 Euros
- Calabria: 1.181 Euros
Thirteenth paid regularly this year.
During the economic crises of 2008/2009 and 2012/2013, many small and micro-businesses, due to lack of liquidity, paid their employees their thirteenth salaries with considerable delay, in some cases even in the first months of the following year. more
However, this year the situation seems to be more stable. Barring some facts in a full-blown crisis, No significant problems emerged Regarding Christmas bonus payments, not even in sectors that have been hit hardest by the productivity slowdown, such as automotive, fashion, wooden furniture and mechanics.
