compare_occupation_pay
Measured pay by occupation (ILO), and the gender gap in each
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MEASURED gross monthly earnings of employees by ISCO-08 major occupation group, from ILOSTAT — median and mean, in USD, PPP dollars and local currency, for 35 countries (a median is published for most of them). This is the site's only measured wage series; calculate_wage_bands is MODELLED, and the two are not interchangeable. Each row also carries the female-vs-male pay gap for that occupation (positive means women earn less; negative values are real and are kept) and where the occupation's median sits on the country's modelled national wage ladder. Employees only — excludes the self-employed and informal workers, which is why these diverge most from GNI-derived estimates in countries with large informal sectors. Before tax. The ten ISCO-08 major groups are broad families of work, not job titles: one group covers a surgeon and a junior developer alike. Countries with no ILO data return NO_DATA rather than a modelled substitute.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | yes | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (case-insensitive). |
| occupation | string | no | Narrow the response to one ISCO-08 major group. Omit for the whole table. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"country"
],
"properties": {
"country": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (case-insensitive)."
},
"occupation": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"total",
"armed-forces",
"managers",
"professionals",
"technicians",
"clerical",
"services-sales",
"agricultural",
"craft",
"operators",
"elementary"
],
"description": "Narrow the response to one ISCO-08 major group. Omit for the whole table."
}
}
}