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Average monthly gross wages and salaries

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Gross wages and salaries are remuneration specified in the employment contract or legislation, including remuneration paid for performance and transactions, which includes taxes and payments withheld under the law. All economically active enterprises, institutions and organisations with at least one employee are taken into account.

Financial statistics of enterprises

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What economic activities have the largest turnover? Who invests the most? Financial statistics of enterprises help to assess how enterprises and the economy are doing in Estonia. Progressive enterprises increase productivity and break into international markets. They can offer more jobs and pay a more competitive salary. This has a positive impact primarily on working-age population in the areas where the successful enterprises operate, as well on the Estonian economy as a whole. Statistics Estonia publishes financial statistics of Estonian enterprises by year and quarter, economic activity

Part-time employment decreased in the second quarter

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According to Statistics Estonia, in the second quarter of 2021, the labour force participation rate was 70.6%, the employment rate was 65.8%, and the unemployment rate was 6.9%.

People prefer e-commerce while enterprises prefer cloud services

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According to Statistics Estonia, 56.5% of the population aged 16–74 used e-commerce in the last three months. Compared to last year, the overall popularity of e-commerce has remained the same, but the amounts spent on purchasing goods and services have increased. The results of the enterprise survey showed that more than half of the companies using the internet use paid cloud services.

One of five part-time employees wishes to work more hours

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According to Statistics Estonia, one out of five part-time employees would like to work more hours and is ready to do that if there is such an opportunity. In 2011, there were more than 12,000 such underemployed part-time workers.

The gender pay gap remained at the level of previous year

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According to Statistics Estonia, in October 2017, the average gross hourly earnings of female employees were 20.9% lower than the average gross hourly earnings of male employees. After three years of decrease, the gender pay gap remained at the same level as in the previous year.

More than three-quarters of households have mobile internet connection

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According to Statistics Estonia, 88% of Estonian households had internet connection at home in 2017. The share of households using mobile internet connection has reached 82%, increasing by four percentage points in a year.