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In the 3rd quarter of 2018, the employment rate among young people (aged 15–24) constituted 36.2%, which is 1.3 percentage points higher than in the corresponding period of 2017. Out of all young people, 62.7 thousand were employed.

In the 3rd quarter, persons employed in the main job worked on average 38.8 hours per week, which is the same number recorded in the same period a year ago.

Compared to the 3rd quarter of 2017, in the 3rd quarter of 2018 the share of employees receiving less than EUR 450 monthly (after taxes) fell to 28.9 % (a drop of 10 percentage points), the proportion of employees receiving minimum monthly wage1 or less constituted 124.2 thousand or 15.3% (a reduction of 3.4 percentage points). The share of employees receiving EUR 450–700 monthly increased by 0.7 percentage points (33.5% in Q3), and that of employees receiving EUR 700–1400 monthly grew by 6.3 percentage points (27.1% in Q3). The proportion of employees receiving more than EUR 1400 monthly increased by 1.6 percentage points. In its turn, wage or salary of 3.3% of employees was not calculated or paid, while 3.0 % did not indicate the size of earnings thereof.

Employees by monthly net wages and salaries in the main job
(as %)

In the 3rd quarter of 2018, Labour Force Survey questions about economic activity were asked to 7.3 thousand people aged 15–74 living in 4.1 thousand households.