Portugal - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Portugal was 18,063,340,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,434,530,000 in 2009 and a minimum value of 354,146,500 in 1978.

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
1978 354,146,500
1979 440,937,300
1980 576,610,400
1981 693,827,900
1982 866,412,000
1983 996,099,400
1984 1,236,021,000
1985 1,535,300,000
1986 1,864,008,000
1987 2,137,853,000
1988 2,707,206,000
1989 4,271,206,000
1990 5,241,867,000
1991 6,635,508,000
1992 7,932,882,000
1993 8,540,418,000
1994 8,732,954,000
1995 9,733,675,000
1996 10,428,250,000
1997 11,353,170,000
1998 12,757,470,000
1999 13,881,250,000
2000 15,442,210,000
2001 16,383,760,000
2002 17,528,070,000
2003 18,165,790,000
2004 18,839,470,000
2005 19,945,310,000
2006 19,403,410,000
2007 19,339,490,000
2008 19,666,070,000
2009 20,434,530,000
2010 19,620,310,000
2011 17,880,280,000
2012 15,465,530,000
2013 16,774,410,000
2014 16,216,080,000
2015 16,057,810,000
2016 16,576,270,000
2017 16,969,910,000
2018 17,410,940,000
2019 18,063,340,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Portugal was 21.89 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 41 years was 32.28 in 2000, while its lowest value was 19.16 in 1986.

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
1978 26.30
1979 26.13
1980 25.65
1981 23.89
1982 24.62
1983 21.48
1984 22.74
1985 19.84
1986 19.16
1987 20.96
1988 22.46
1989 28.81
1990 28.97
1991 29.71
1992 30.52
1993 30.09
1994 30.25
1995 29.73
1996 30.04
1997 30.96
1998 30.76
1999 31.29
2000 32.28
2001 31.68
2002 31.90
2003 31.23
2004 30.62
2005 30.39
2006 29.09
2007 28.07
2008 27.24
2009 26.67
2010 24.85
2011 22.94
2012 20.79
2013 21.68
2014 19.75
2015 20.42
2016 21.61
2017 20.91
2018 21.70
2019 21.89

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance