Sweden's pay gap widens
Pay differentials between Swedish senior executives and blue-collar workers have widened further, according to the paper Dagens Arbete.
Sweden’s best-paid directors in industry received an average annual salary of 6.9 million kronor in 2003 - an increase of 14 per cent in just two years. Blue-collar workers received an average 7 per cent increase in wages during the same period.
Retail sales up
Retail sales rose by 6.9 per cent in January year-on-year. Sales on consumer durables rose by 9.9 per cent while sales of non-durables rose by 3.1 per cent.
Sources: Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Industri
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Sweden’s best-paid directors in industry received an average annual salary of 6.9 million kronor in 2003 - an increase of 14 per cent in just two years. Blue-collar workers received an average 7 per cent increase in wages during the same period.
Retail sales up
Retail sales rose by 6.9 per cent in January year-on-year. Sales on consumer durables rose by 9.9 per cent while sales of non-durables rose by 3.1 per cent.
Sources: Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Industri
Supplied by BECK TRANSLATIONS.
With an experienced team of in-house translators, Beck specialises in translating from Swedish into English in such areas as finance and economics, marketing and advertising, biotechnology, the environment, quality, and personnel & administration.
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