The charts illustrate changes in average earnings in six different sectors in a particular country and average salary for all sectors in 2000 and 2010. Overall, average annual salaries increased across all but one sector over the ten-year period, while the overall avarge also rising. Financial services remained by far the highest-paying sector in both years, Tourism consistently had the lowest salaries and was the only sector to a fall.
Financial Services and Telecommunications had the highest average salaries in both year, although there was a noticeable gap between the two. At around 115,000 dollars in 2000, the figure for Financial Services was almost twice that of Telecommunications, at around 65,000 dollars. Over the following decade, former increased by about 18,000 dollars to just over 130,000 dollars, while smaller increases, to roughly 75,000 dollars, was seen in the latter. This meant that the gap between them widened, despite both remaining well above the other four.
Among the remaining sectors, salaries were much closer, although their patterns of change differed. Transport and Retail/shops saw larger increases in this group, with the former remaining the highest-paid sector after its average salary rose to around 55,000 dollars, while a larger growth was in Retail/Shops, to over 50,000 dollars, left it slightly behind Transport in 2010. Administration, however, witnessed a much smaller increase, reaching around 43,000 dollars in 2010, whereas Tourism bucked an overall upward trend, declining slightly to approximately 18,000 dollars, down from an initial figure of exactly 20,000 dollars. With salaries increasing across other five sectors, the overall avarge rose from 44,000 dollars to 55,000.