Brief Assessments of the Wage Issues at the Level of EU Countries

The issue of salaries including salary levels, evolution, purchasing power, salary differentiation between business areas, development areas, men and women, are some of the aspects that bring forth multiple and lasting concerns not only among researchers, but also to governors and to European bodies interested in the field of labour, employment and in social issues derived from payroll as a way of design, implementation, size and development. A brief analysis of the aspects related in particular to the minimum and average wage, as well as of the share of employees earning the minimum salary, meaning below the threshold of average salaries of employees in the total of European Union countries, on the basis of the data supplied by Eurostat, shows significant differences among them, differences that persist despite a legislative and institutional framework created at EU level to monitor, identify and implement effective solutions, based on the indissoluble bond that exists between wage policies and the economic efficiency of a state.