The gap in salaries between men and women increased slightly to 31.6%

The average monthly gross income per employee from hired employment was NIS 10,584 in 2018, up 4% compared to 2017. Median income per employee is NIS 7,988, a real increase of 6.3% compared to 2017, according to data released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. .
The average number of working hours per week is 40.9, and the average gross income per working hour is NIS 61.7.
According to gender, 51.6% of employees are men and 48.4% are women. The average gross income per employee male is NIS 12,498 per month (and NIS 66.3 per hour). The average gross income per hired woman is NIS 8,546 per month (NIS 55.7 per hour).
In terms of the median figures, the gross monthly income for a salaried man is NIS 9,207 and for a salaried woman NIS 6,672. As far as gaps between men and women are concerned, the average gross monthly income of a hired woman is 68.4% of a man's income, ie a gap of 31.6% - a slight increase from a gap of 31.4% in 2017. A woman's median income per month is 72.5% of a man's median income, which is a 27.5% gap, up from 24.7% in 2017.
Some of the gaps are due to the smaller number of hours worked by women, so the gap narrows when you look at the average gross income per hour, which is 84% ​​for a woman from male income, a gap of 16%, compared with 15.8% in 2007.
In the distribution of salaries by population group, the following picture is obtained: The average gross monthly income from employees in the Jewish population is NIS 11,191, and the median - NIS 8,416. In the Arab population, the average gross monthly income is NIS 7,338, and the median is NIS 6,512.
Of the economic sectors, the highest average income is in the "Information and Communication" sector - NIS 19,499 per month. Of the occupations, the highest average income is among "managers" - NIS 19,326 per month. In this occupation, the weekly working hours are also the highest - an average of 47.2 hours per week.
The average monthly gross income per employee employee 49.1 working hours per week is NIS 21,130. In contrast, the income for a hiring manager who works 43.6 hours a month is NIS 16,028 a month - a gap of 31.8%.
As the level of education of the employee increases, his income increases. The average gross income per hour of an employee with an education of 16 years of education or higher is NIS 89.9, compared to the income of NIS 34.6 per hour of an employee who has studied less than nine years.
The average age of an employee is 39.7 years, and the average number of school years is 14.2.The average salary per employee job of Israeli workers was NIS 10,856 in September, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports today. This is a 4.6% increase over September 2018 - but keep in mind that Tishrei holidays began this year in October and 2018 in September. According to the CBS, after seasonal effects such as the holidays, the rate of increase in wages in July to September stands at 2.4% in annual calculation (current prices), similar to the rate of increase in April-June. The wages of foreign workers amounted to NIS 6,603.

The number of employee jobs in the economy rose by 4.1% in September compared to September 2018. This is an addition of 145.9 thousand new jobs to the economy - after a slight increase in the number of jobs in previous months. However, here, too, the seasonal component may have had a distorting effect, due to the holidays. Trend data indicate a 1.6% year-on-year increase in the number of employee jobs in July-September. The sectors with the largest expansion in July-September were management and support services (an increase of 4.7% in the number of jobs in annual calculations) and information and communications (4.3%).
The number of high-tech employee jobs in September was 329.5 thousand, an increase of 5.6% compared to September 2018. High-tech employee jobs accounted for 8.9% of all employee jobs in the economy. The average salary per employee position of high-tech employees was NIS 23,087, an increase of 5.8% compared to September 2018 (NIS 21,823).
In the construction industry, average wages per employee post at constant prices rose by 6.1% in annual calculations in July-September, following a 5.3% increase in annual calculations in April-June. In the education industry, average wages per employee post at constant prices rose 4.9% in annual calculations in July-September, following a 3.6% increase in annual calculations in April-June.
The second sector in its wage levels in the economy is in the electricity and water supply industry, sewage services and waste treatment - the average wage in this industry is NIS 19,489. However, an interesting analysis presented by the CBS concludes that behind this average there are dramatic wage gaps between the electricity and water sectors (where 54% of employees are employed) and the sewerage and waste treatment sector (where the remaining employees, which account for 46% of the total employed): The average wage in electricity and water supply is NIS 25,899, but the overall average in the industry is much lower because the average wage in sewage and waste treatment is only NIS 11,900.