Nearly half of global wages received by top 10%, survey finds

Bottom half of all workers are paid only 6% of total pay, says International Labour Organization

Nearly half of all global pay is scooped up by only 10% of workers, according to the International Labour Organization, while the lowest-paid 50% receive only 6.4%.

The lowest-paid 20% - about 650 million workers - get less than 1% of total pay, a figure that has barely moved in 13 years, ILO analysis found. It used labour income figures from 189 countries between 2004 and 2017, the latest available data.

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