The given chart compares how much people from different work fields earned annually in 2000 and ten years later in a nation.
Overall, workers in every area but tourism witnessed an increase in their salaries over the course of ten years. Additionally, financial services were the most lucrative industry, while the annual income of people in tourism remained the lowest among all sectors.
In 2000, employers in the travel industry paid 20,000 dollars for a full-time employee per year, which was nearly half the earnings of retail clerks. In addition, the yearly income of employees in transport was slightly more than that of administration workers, around 44 thousand dollars. The two highest paid industries were telecommunications and financial services; specifically, the latter one led by a considerable margin with a salary of approximately 100,000 dollars. That year, the overall income level of all occupational sectors was 44,000 dollars.
Ten years later, on average, employed individuals in all fields made 6,000 dollars more than a decade ago. Apart from tourism where people received less money than they did in 2000, a growth in the annual incomes of people in every work area had been observed by 2010. Particularly, administration employees’ salary saw a modest rise to almost 50 thousand dollars; at the same time, the earnings of those in telecommunications, transport as well as shops were significantly higher, up to about 75,000 dollars, 57,000 dollars, and 55,000 dollars respectively. Following the same pattern as these three sectors, financial services workers earned roughly 130,000 dollars per year, remaining the top-salaried among the workforce of a country at that time.