Contractual wages and salaries

The index of wages according to collective labour agreements measures the evolution of wages and salaries (per employee or per hour) determined by contractual provisions set by collective agreements; the indices are calculated with reference to the fixed employment structure of the base period (December 2010).

At the end of September 2017 the coverage rate (share of national collective agreements in force for the wage setting aspects) was 58.7 per cent in terms of employees and 55.8 per cent in terms of the total amount of wages.

In September 2017 the hourly index and the per employee index were unchanged from last month, while increased by 0.2 per cent respect to July .

Compared with September 2016 the hourly index and the per employee index rose by 0.6 per cent.

During the period January-September 2017 the hourly index increased by 0.4 per cent while the per employee index rose by 0.5 per cent compared to the same
period of the previous year.