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Iceland's wage index records 0.5 pct increase in March

Xinhua, June 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Iceland's wage index reported a month-on-month increase of 0.5 percent in May 2015, according to Statistics Iceland on Monday.

The figures showed that the wage index in May was 505.7, an increase of 0.5 percent compared with 503.2 in April. The index takes the wage in December 1988 as base number of 100.

In the past 12 months, the monthly wage index has increased by 5.3 percent.

The real wage index in May was 121.1, an increase of 0.2 percent compared with that of the previous month.

In the past 12 months, the real wage has increased by 3.6 percent. Endit