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United Kingdom Sweden and France are in 3rd and 4th place. The EU average wage cost is only EUR 23.9 per hour.
It’s the second year in a row that Belgium features on the number 2 spot for the overall wage cost.
Flandersnews.be / Expatica
Belgium has highest industrial wage cost in the EU
Published on 18/11/2014
The IMK worked out that in 2013 the average Belgian private worker cost his or her employer EUR 41.2 an hour.
For Denmark the figure was EUR 41.4.
For industrial workers Belgium leads the pack with an hourly cost of EUR 42.7 per hour.
