in Milan they are 2 and a half times the average – Corriere.it

Milan is the city where there are highest salaries in Italy: on average, in 2021 an employee earned 30,464 euros. An average salary that is two and a half times higher than the national average of 12,473 euros and nine times higher than that of Rieti, the province that brings up the rear in the salary rankings. Second in the ranking is Bolzano with 18,942 euros, followed by Bologna with 18,628, Parma with 18,175 and Rome with 17,774.

Other income? Milan last

But so far we have talked about salaries, that is, income from employment. What about the other sources of income, such as rent or financial income? Between 2019 and 2021, the weight of employee income (therefore salary) on total disposable income (which takes into account all income) remained stable at around 63 percent. At the two extremes of this average are Rieti with 23.9% and Milan with 90.7 percent: translated, in Rieti income comes mainly from other sources other than wages, while in Milan it depends almost entirely on work employee. So much so that, if we drew up a ranking of disposable income net of employee income, the Lombard capital would plummet to last place in the standings with just 3,131 euros each.

Goodbye North-South dichotomy

The analysis – underlines Gaetano Fausto Esposito, general manager of the Tagliacarne Study Center – demonstrates that the geographically diversified geography of wages and under various aspects does not respect the traditional North-South dichotomy. In fact, if we compare the per capita GDP ranking (which measures the production of wealth) with that of wages, we see that in the first case practically all the last thirty positions are the prerogative of southern provinces (with the sole exception of Rieti), while in that of per capita wages we find no less than ten provinces in the Centre-North, which leads us to reflect on income policies at the local level.