Paris (AFP)
The median salary of executives increased this year by 2.4%, its "second largest increase in seven years", behind that of 2018 (+ 2.7%), according to the annual barometer Expectra released Monday.
"Locomotive wages" is the digital evolution of companies that "dope" the remuneration of executives because employers "must appeal to profiles increasingly qualified and still very rare," said in an Expectra, French interim and recruitment subsidiary of the Dutch group Randstad.
In companies, the "digital strategy deploys faster than available skills, resulting in a major tension in the job market that feeds speculation to capture and retain talent", while "in a context of full employment "For executives, they" no longer hesitate to assert their claims, "said Christophe Bougeard, CEO of Expectra, quoted in the statement.
The median annual gross salary of executives (half earns more, the other less) climbs to 45,793 euros in 2019, according to Expectra, which analyzed nearly 87,500 payslips of executives and supervisors, working in nearly 10,500 two-thirds of which are located in the provinces and one-third in Ile-de-France.
By business, financial controllers recorded the highest growth (+ 8.4%), ahead of accountants (+ 7.3%), subscribers (+ 7%), risk analysts (+6, 4%), IT managers (+ 6.3%) and system engineers (+ 6.3%).
Among the sectors, construction is leading (+ 2.8%), after a 2018 already "very dynamic" (+ 4.2%). Followed by accounting and finance (+ 2.7%), sales and marketing (+ 2.5%), IT and telecoms (+ 2.2%), human resources, payroll and legal (+2) %), ahead of engineering and industries (+ 1.8%).
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