International Labour Organization (ILO) has been keeping track and publishing the average wage of workers (not self-employed or people on benefits) in most of the countries in the world for more than a decade.
Recently, BBC has published a ranking of rough wage figure of 72 countries based on ILO's data of year 2009.
According to the report, Luxembourg topped the average world wages in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars. The top 20 are:
- Luxembourg ($4089)
- Norway ($3678)
- Austria ($3437)
- United States ($3263)
- United Kingdom ($3065)
- Belgium ($3035)
- Sweden ($3023)
- Ireland ($2997)
- Finland ($2925)
- Korea ($2903)
- France ($2886)
- Canada ($2724)
- Germany ($2720)
- Singapore ($2616)
- Australia ($2610)
- Cyprus ($2605)
- Japan ($2522)
- Italy ($2445)
- Iceland ($2431)
- Spain ($2352)
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