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Question: Is your pay just? We are not asking about how much you would like to earn - but what you feel is just given your skills and effort. If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" "About just for me" "More than is just" "Much more than is just" "Never had a job"
Data: % of "Much less than is just" "Less than is just" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ukraine84.2%
2 Hungary76.1%
3 Slovakia74.2%
4 Poland73.8%
5 Russian Federation73.5%
5 Turkiye73.5%
7 Latvia72.9%
8 Bulgaria71.8%
9 Argentina70.9%
9 Chile70.9%
11 Philippines69.8%
12 Portugal68.8%
13 Croatia65.9%
14 Italy64.6%
15 Lithuania63.7%
16 Venezuela63.6%
17 France62.6%
18 Slovenia61.2%
19 Sweden60.9%
20 Estonia59.8%
21 Czech Republic59.4%
22 Spain58.7%
23 China58.3%
24 Japan56.9%
25 Finland 54.7%
25 Norway54.7%
27 Israel53.8%
28 Germany52.0%
29 Republic of Korea51.1%
30 New Zealand50.5%
31 South Africa50.1%
32 United States48.0%
33 Iceland47.3%
34 United Kingdom47.0%
35 Austria46.6%
36 Australia46.0%
37 Switzerland41.1%
38 Denmark40.9%
39 Taiwan39.9%
40 Belgium39.1%
41 Cyprus32.8%

Note
Those who answer "Never had a job"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -3.737670 X +8.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.584
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.341

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -128850.598524 X +110766.074
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -18.148852 X +89.553
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.491
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.241

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.196382 X +1.514
Correlation coefficient (r)0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.278240 X +11.792
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002