The very high salaries are increasing faster
They were euphemistically called the "very high salaries." These are the 133 000 full-time employees the more lucrative private sector who have received an average gross earnings of EUR 215 600 in 2007. Three times more than the "high wages" and seven times more than all full-time employees. The heterogeneity of this category is very large: the differences in annual revenues ranging from 84 500 euros to more than 13 million.
This category of the population does not know the crisis."While they represent only 1% of the workforce, people with very high incomes receive 5.5% of earned income, 32% of income from assets and 48% of the windfall revenues reported (capital gains, exercise of options), "INSEE noted in the 2010 edition of its publication The income and household wealth.
Between 2004 and 2007, the number of employees earning more than 100 000 per year has increased by 28% and those exceeding the half-million dollars … 70%! Since 2002, wages rose an average 5.8% per annum in real terms, against a 2.3% increase for all employees on the same period.Three focus areas more than half of these very high salaries: advice and assistance (including sector "business administration" including holding companies, the group headers), financial activities and trade activities Wholesale Guaranteed pay day loans.
West Paris in mind
40% of these very high salaries are salaried executives who earn on average 230 000 per year, 15% of financial professionals, such trader or chief of a financial service of a large company (290 000), and More anecdotally, for 0.8% of them, the athletes earning almost 450 000 euros on average per year.
Nearly nine in ten very high salaries (87%) are men."The more you go up the hierarchy, the higher the proportion of men increases," notes INSEE estimated 6% difference in pay between male and female quotas at this level of responsibility.
Another feature related to the experience, they are older (49 years on average) than high wages (45 years) and that all employees (40 years). Only 16% of them are under 40 years. Finally, nearly one in two lives in West Paris, in the three departments (Paris, Yvelines Hauts-de-Seine) where the head offices of large enterprises.
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