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Press release No. 203 of 25 May 2023 Gross domestic product: detailed economic performance results for the 1st quarter of 2023
...Average wages and salaries per employee went up by a gross 5.7% in the first quarter of 2023. Due to the weak development of wage tax revenue, there was a stronger net increase of 7.8% on the same period of the previous year. Contributing factors probably were less short-time work and, in particular, payments of premiums compensating for inflation. ...
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Press release No. 070 of 24 February 2023 Gross domestic product: detailed results on the economic performance in the 4th quarter of 2022
...Total gross wages and salaries rose 6.8% on a year earlier as the number of employees also went up once more. The increase of net wages and salaries (+7.5%) was slightly larger than that of gross wages and salaries, one of the reasons being the downward effect of the Tax Relief Act 2022. Overall, the extremely high inflation led to noticeable losses in real earnings for employees, on average, also at the end of 2022. ...