Turkey Wages Q2 2007

According to the results of the wages index per-hour-worked and earnings index per-employee in manufacturing industry published by Turkstat; wages per-hour-worked in production increased by 8.9 %, earnings per-production-worker increased by 9.2% and earnings per non-production worker increased by 10.5% for the second quarter of 2007 over those of Q2 2006.

In public sector, wages per hour worked in production increased by 7.1 %, earnings per production worker increased by 9.9 % and earnings per non-production worker increased by 6.1 %. In the private sector, wages per hour worked in production increased by 9.5 %, earnings per production worker increased by 9.7 % and earnings per non-production worker increased by 10.8 %.

Here's the chart for the wages index:



and here are the annual rates for wages and earnings of production and non-production workers: