Spain - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Spain was 26,507,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26,507,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,183,994,000 in 1972.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 1,183,994,000
1973 1,428,005,000
1974 1,765,774,000
1975 2,190,088,000
1976 2,825,959,000
1977 3,954,059,000
1978 5,067,133,000
1979 6,325,051,000
1980 7,729,016,000
1981 8,483,286,000
1982 9,674,492,000
1983 10,615,080,000
1984 11,360,330,000
1985 10,286,320,000
1986 11,013,550,000
1987 14,093,730,000
1988 15,669,590,000
1989 17,740,680,000
1990 13,739,140,000
1991 14,493,410,000
1992 15,591,460,000
1993 16,853,580,000
1994 16,228,530,000
2017 24,788,000,000
2018 25,421,000,000
2019 26,507,000,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Spain was 6.60 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 34.09 in 1977, while its lowest value was 6.57 in 2018.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 32.40
1973 32.02
1974 31.93
1975 31.99
1976 33.71
1977 34.09
1978 32.68
1979 32.43
1980 33.37
1981 32.13
1982 28.45
1983 26.75
1984 24.74
1985 18.79
1986 17.63
1987 20.15
1988 20.45
1989 20.45
1990 14.25
1991 13.33
1992 12.67
1993 12.12
1994 11.25
2017 6.72
2018 6.57
2019 6.60

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance