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It is good news to be self-employed in Goa but to be a salaried worker in Chandigarh

Submitted by admin on October 2nd, 2024

There was regional divergence in gender income gap for urban India. Haryana fared much better here with women earning more than double of the national average of corresponding employment. However, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal had the maximum difference in income where women were getting about 40-50 percent of the monthly salary of men.

This might be true especially given that Goa is considered holidayers’ paradise, and has increasingly become a haven for the self-employed. As per the periodic labour force survey data and using the Dailyfinserv analysis average gross monthly earnings in urban areas of the state were at 2023-24 were two folds of national average.

An earner in urban Goa in the self-employed category earned Rs 44,274 against the national average of Rs 20,413. The self employed person was earning Rs 42,237 per month in Chandigarh while a person in Delhi was earning Rs 29,782 per month.

Besides, in urban Haryana women’s wages were 2.17 times the national wages while urban males wages were 13.62% higher than the national wages in Maharashtra, 12.91% in Haryana and 12.7% in Karnataka compared to any other state.

The Chattisgarh, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh remained the worst states for self employed in urban parts with payment 20-50 percent less than national levels.

The self-employed people of the urban West Bengal received half of the income of the country’s average monthly income. West Bengal fared even worse for self-employed urban woman earning a mere 32 percent of the national average monthly salary.

And when it came to sectors offering paid workplaces, even West Bengal did not do very well. Salaried employees in the state were, on an average, receiving Rs 21, 413 per month which was 13 percent lower than the all India average wage of Rs 24,434.

Punjab was the worst among all states, urban regular wage workers earning 24 percent less than the national mean income. Gujarat had also the lowest wages among states in terms of wages.

West Bengal was on par with Bihar as a state where salaried urban women are not fashionably welcome, as its average income trailed the national average by 32 percentage points whilst Odisha was only slightly better and paid 30 percent less.

Overall, Lakshadweep and Ladakh were most favourable for the salaries, although that could be because the two territories are loaded with governmental employees substantially than the other regions.

Also, the income in Lakshadweep was 4700 higher as compared to the all India average. According to the survey information, the government or public sector enterprises were the major employers, which provided employment to about half of the workers.

Excluding such states and NE regions, it was 30 percent more for Chandigarh, Haryana, Telangana.

The women were somewhat better placed in Haryana and Chandigarh because they were paid 50.71 percent higher than the country average income of Rs 19,879 per month.

In comparison with Chandigarh and Haryana was better condition because they earn more than men. At the other extreme, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal have a high ‘Ethnic Wage Penalties’, that is, urban women earn closer to about 50 percent of monthly earnings from men.

Catching up

Chandigarh was also among the best such places-NRI, Coimbatore ind and Pune ind were the highest with salary jumps of over Rs 10000 According to our survey. New BLS data shows that real average weekly wages of salaried workers rose by 93 percent between April-June of 2018 and April-June of 2024, compared to a national average of a 39.8 percent increase.

New wage earners in urban areas of other states including Telangana, West Bengal, Haryana and Karnataka saw more than 50% rise in their incomes in six years, while Odisha and Punjab lagged behind.

Punjab women’s incomes plummeted by 12 per cent in these six years.

Goa, which is a hotspot of tourism, is one of the best places to be self-employed in India as the gross monthly earning in urban part in 2023-24 was double the national average, revealed a Dailyfinserv analysis based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey data.

A self-employed person in urban Goa earned Rs 44,274 compared with the national average of Rs 20,413. A self-employed person in Chandigarh earned Rs 42,237, and in Delhi earned Rs 29,782 per month.