For the reason that Covid disaster, employers have been reporting to the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute full information about their salaried workers, permitting the calculation every month of salaried workers in Israel. This has offered a possibility for broad information analyses, which have been beforehand primarily based solely on the Central Bureau of Statistics surveys, which counted jobs and never workers. The typical wage measured by the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute is larger (NIS 14,657 per 30 days in contrast with the Central Bureau of Statistics determine of NIS 13,514), and doubtless extra correct.
The cities the place salaried employees earn essentially the most on common, in accordance with the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute, are cities identified for his or her extra prosperous populations: Herzliya (NIS 22,048), Raanana (NIS 21,982), Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut (NIS 21,659) and Tel Aviv (NIS 21,299). The cities on the backside are primarily haredi and Arab, together with Modi’in Illit (NIS 8,002), Bnei Brak (NIS 9,244), Rahat (NIS 9,393) and Nazareth (NIS 9,847). The typical wage in Modi’in Illit, due to this fact, is simply about half of the common wage in all the financial system.
The Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute has additionally printed the median wage per worker for the primary time – a determine that was lacking alongside the common month-to-month wage information. Now, the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute will have the ability to publish the common and median wages in a comparatively up-to-date and quick method. Nonetheless, the info solely contains workers, utterly overlooking the self-employed. As well as, the common and median wages that shall be printed solely embrace employers who report on their workers and pay Nationwide Insurance coverage contributions as required by legislation.
For instance, the common wage in Israel is NIS 14,657 per 30 days. However the median month-to-month wage, which half of workers earn above and half earn under, stands at solely NIS 10,368 – 30% much less. With the assistance of the brand new Nationwide Insurance coverage information, it’s also doable to see the division into wage deciles (gross): the bottom wage decile earns lower than NIS 2,482 (it additionally contains troopers and part-time employees), and the very best wage decile earns over NIS 30,101 per 30 days.
Regardless of these giant gaps, one of many issues that greatest explains the wage gaps in Israel is age: these below 20 earn solely NIS 3,032 shekels per 30 days (this contains troopers), these aged 20-29 already earn NIS 8,434, and the wage reaches NIS 19,472 per 30 days for folks age 50-59. At 60 and older, the wage falls barely to NIS 14,371 per 30 days. Many individuals transfer via a variety of revenue deciles throughout their lives, however it’s also doable that comparatively youthful populations on common, equivalent to haredim who earn much less on common, additionally have an effect on the figures.
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The brand new measurement by the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute primarily based on the executive information submitted to them has a major impression on the outcome obtained in relation to that of the Central Bureau of Statistics. If a extremely paid physician divides work between three jobs, in a medical insurance fund, a hospital and a non-public clinic, every with a decrease than common wage, it’ll decrease the common as an alternative of elevating it. Due to this fact, the wage is larger – and doubtless extra correct, since after we study the incomes potential within the financial system, the attention-grabbing determine is how a lot the worker earns from all jobs and never how a lot every (partial) job is price individually.
In accordance with the measurement by the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute, in 2024 salaries rose 5.5% from 2023, which represents an actual enhance in relation to the three.1% inflation over the yr. Nonetheless, since then inflation has already climbed to three.6%. Following the outbreak of the conflict in October 2023, the variety of employers fell 3% and the variety of workers 2.4%.
Ladies earn much less
The brand new information from the Nationwide Insurance coverage Institute additionally sheds mild on gender gaps. Within the lowest 50% there are 46% extra girls than males, and within the highest 50% there are 48% extra males than girls. Within the prime wage 10% there are 174% extra males than girls. At the beginning of the conflict, and on the finish of 2024, there was a major decline within the variety of employed folks, primarily males, whereas the common wage of those that remained elevated. Whereas this phenomenon on the finish of 2023 might be defined by the outbreak of the conflict, the rationale for the same phenomenon on the finish of 2024 is much less clear.
By way of financial sectors, the group that earns the very best quantities is in “electrical energy, gasoline, and air-con provide” (i.e., employees within the vitality trade, together with the Israel Electrical Firm) who earn NIS 30,284 per 30 days on common and in “IT and communications” (together with many tech employees) who earn a median of NIS 27,823 per 30 days. In distinction, within the hospitality and meals providers trade, the common wage is simply NIS 6,119 and this contains workers in part-time jobs.
Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 10, 2025.
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