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Median earnings of fixed-term employees EUR 2,557 per month

The median of total earnings for fixed-term wage and salary earners in full-time employment was EUR 2,557 per month in 2013. Correspondingly, full-time employees with a permanent employment relationship earned EUR 3,000.

Fixed-term employees earned less than permanent employees in all occupational groups. The difference was particularly high for professionals, where the median of total earnings for fixed-term employees was 78 per cent of the median earnings of permanent employees. The difference was smallest for managers, service and sales workers, and plant and machine operators, and assemblers: in these groups, the ratio between median earnings was between 92 and 90 per cent.

Table 1. Median of total earnings for fixed-term and permanent employees by occupational group in 2013

Classification of Occupations 2010	Fixed term, EUR per month	Permanent	Proportion of earnings
1 Managers	5 620	5 151	0.92
2 Professionals	4 043	3 170	0.78
3 Technicians and associate professionals	3 200	2 639	0.82
4 Clerical support workers	2 568	2 201	0.86
5 Service and sales workers	2 394	2 189	0.91
6 Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers	2 524	1 885	0.75
7 Craft and related trades workers	2 889	2 479	0.86
8 Plant and machine operators, and assemblers	2 860	2 585	0.90
9 Elementary occupations	2 201	1 917	0.87
Total	3 000	2 557	0.85

The earnings of fixed-term employees have not changed much in the 2000s compared to permanent wage and salary earners. In 2000, the median of total earnings of fixed-term employees was 84 per cent of the median earning of permanent employees. In 2013, the corresponding percentage was 85.

The relative share of fixed-term employees among wage and salary earners has decreased according to the structure of earnings statistics. According to the structure of earnings statistics, there were 170,000 fixed-term employees working full-time in 2000, while the corresponding figure in 2013 was 142,000. The share of fixed-term wage and salary earners compared to permanent ones declined from 14 to 12 per cent.

Figure 1. Proportion of earnings and numbers of fixed-term and permanent wage and salary earners in the 2000s

Source: Structure of Earnings 2013, Statistics Finland

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Updated 14.10.2014