IT- und Finanzmitarbeiter hatten im vergangenen Jahr die höchsten Durchschnittsgehälter


I get that a newspaper never refuses ink, and that IrishJobs is ultimately an offshoot of Axel Springer SE (the massive publishing group – politico, business insider, BILD – DO NOT LOOK UP WHO AXEL SPRINGER WAS!!!) and so knows how to get coverage, but this is mostly useless.

I struggle to imagine why the public should pay attention to data from a single platform when this is data that is collected by the CSO both through survey (EHECS) and administrative data.

The only real use of it is if you are for some reason interested in the advertised salaries on that particular platform. Maybe if you are really interested in specific job titles rather than sector, but I’m not sure that is particularly useful given the other constraints and how arbitrary title selection can be in advertising a role.

Anyway, up the CSO. Would be nice if RTÉ would do a bit of work in interrogating the data rather than just hitting Ctrl+C on a press release.

We don’t know how good we have it in this country

IT and finance skew the stats. Most people aren’t earning anywhere near that once rent, tax and pension deductions hit. A good overview on the situation is [here](https://medium.com/@rsnowden21/from-minimum-wage-to-living-costs-the-pay-reality-irish-hr-teams-cant-ignore-d154c6a315fb)