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Italy: public sector managers highest paid of OECD countries
Italy's senior civil servants top the OECD pay league but, as riots in Rome in 2010 show, confidence in government is low. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters Italy : public sector managers highest paid of OECD countries Senior managers in Italy were the highest paid among the 34 member states of the OECD , according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report on citizen satisfaction with their governments. Average salaries for high-ranking public sector officials in Italy were $650,000, almost three times the OECD average of $232,000. Meanwhile, the OECD also found that only 28% of Italian citizens surveyed in 2012 had confidence in their government, well below the average confidence level of 40% across the other 34 OECD states. Finland : women trail men on pay except in senior public sector roles Female senior officials and managers in the civil service earn 111% of the average wage of their male counterparts, a surv...
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