The data displays the proportions of workers and citizens with higher education, as well as their mean income in euros, in eight different european states in 2015.
Overall, the largest fluctuations can be observed in the average income, ranging from around three thousand in Bulgaria, to more than forty thousand euros in Norway. Excluding Greece, over 60% of citizens, aged 16 to 64 have a job. In most, but not all of the countries, a university degree also promises higher salaries.
In first place in all three categories is Norway, with only a quarter of the whole population not having a job. Even though both Luxembourg and UK have similar ratios of people having a university diploma, with 41.1, 41.6, respectively, the average pay in the United Kingdom is less then a half of what is being paid in Norway.
Despite Austria and Latvia having similar numbers of workers of around 70%, as well as education rates slightly over 30%, Austrians are getting paid four times more. This is however still almost double the amount of earnings when compared to Bulgaria, holding the minimum value of around three thousand euros.
Although there are some discrepancies, in most areas, a university diploma leads to higher salaries as well as higher employment chances. This higher than expected differences could be explained through varying living standards as well as inflation rates observed in these countries.