According to the above-mentioned survey, people with basic education or less had 34.2% lower earnings than the average; the average gross earnings of persons having completed upper secondary education were lagging behind the average gross earnings by 18.5%, while tertiary educated people had 40.0% higher earnings than the average.
Po podatkih omenjenega raziskovanja so bile plače oseb z osnovnošolsko izobrazbo (ali nižjo od te) za 34,2 % nižje od povprečja bruto plače, plače oseb s srednješolsko izobrazbo so zaostajale za povprečjem za 18,5 %, medtem ko so plače oseb z višje- oz. visokošolsko izobrazbo bile kar za 40,0 % višje od povprečja.