Compensation of employees - tec00013

Data - Eurostat

Info

Last observation: 2025 (N = 80)

First observation: 2014 (N = 86)

Last data update: 14 aoû 2026, 22:34. Last compile: 18 aoû 2026, 04:27

Structure

freq

na_item

unit

geo

France, Germany, Portugal

tec00013 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "PT"),
         unit == "PC_GDP") |>
  year_to_enddate() |>
  
  mutate(values = values/100) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line() + theme_minimal()  +
  aes(x = date, y = values, color = color) +
  scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1960, 2100, 1), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  theme(legend.position = c(0.7, 0.55),
        legend.title = element_blank()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Compensation of employees") +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 200, 1),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands

tec00013 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "IT", "ES", "NL"),
         unit == "CP_MEUR") |>
  year_to_enddate() |>

  mutate(values = values/1e6) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  mutate(color = ifelse(geo == "NL", color2, color)) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(2000, 2100, 1), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Compensation of employees (Bn€)")

Latest Year: Compensation of Employees (% of GDP)

latest_yr <- tec00013 |>
  filter(unit == "PC_GDP", nchar(geo) == 2, !is.na(values)) |>
  summarise(m = max(time)) |>
  pull(m)

tec00013 |>
  filter(unit == "PC_GDP", nchar(geo) == 2, time == latest_yr) |>
  select(geo, Geo, `Compensation of employees (% GDP)` = values) |>
  arrange(desc(`Compensation of employees (% GDP)`)) |>
  print_table_conditional()