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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The income development in North Rhine-Westphalia is still below average compared to the whole of western Germany.
This emerges from the latest NRW social report, which the health committee of the Düsseldorf state parliament will deal with this Wednesday.
There are strong local deviations, according to the 616-page “Poverty and Wealth Report” that the NRW Ministry of Social Affairs has to submit once per legislative period: “The highest available income in 2017 was in the Olpe district of EUR 28,044 and the lowest in Gelsenkirchen with 16,312 euros. »
The west German average was 23,283 euros - excluding Berlin.
In North Rhine-Westphalia the average disposable income was 22,263 euros - an increase of 4.2 percent compared to 2013.
“The inequality in income distribution increased further from 2014 to 2017,” the report sums up.
In 2018, the development improved slightly.
However, the figures still show a big gap: in 2018, the income-earning tenth of the population sample considered received 3.7 times as much income as the lowest-income tenth had at most.
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The summary of the social data contains further bad news for North Rhine-Westphalia: "The wage development in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2015 to 2019 lagged behind that in West Germany and the entire federal territory," it says.
In addition, the inequality in the wage distribution has worsened: between managers and unskilled workers as well as between full-time employees with and without German citizenship.
At the same time, the low wage quota in North Rhine-Westphalia continued to rise slightly: According to this, the proportion of full-time employees subject to social insurance who receive a low wage of less than EUR 2,289 gross per month was 19.6 percent at the end of 2018 (2014: 19.0 percent).
The social statistics also depict over-indebtedness as a growing problem.
In 2019 around 1.75 million people in North Rhine-Westphalia were overindebted.
The debtor quota was thus 11.7 percent.
In 2015, it was 11.5 percent with 1.69 million overindebted people.
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