According to figures from Statistics Norway, while the top 10% highest-paid jobs in 1997 paid 2.8 times more than the bottom 10%, the difference was 3.8 times larger in 2022. The report ‘Monthly earnings and inequality through 25 years’ shows that the 10% lowest-paid jobs in 2022 had an average monthly wage of NOK 27,920 per month, while the 10% highest-paid jobs earned NOK 107,110 per month. Statistics Norway points to bonus schemes as one of the drivers of these wage differences. Of all bonuses paid to full-time employees without apprentices in 2022, 70% of bonus payments went to the top 10% with the highest-paid jobs.
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