In one year, gross wages in our province have increased by 2.86%, in five years this will be more than 20 percent. This is mainly due to automatic wage indexation, linked to high inflation, up to 10 percent in 2022. But supply and demand on the labor market, and education, also play a role. “We notice that there is still a large labor shortage, both among blue-collar and white-collar workers. And that employers are willing to give a little more to attract people with the right profiles and competencies. More studies are being done, hence the larger shortage of workers, there you go to a leveling of incomes.”