With an average EUR 13.02, regularly paid gross hourly earnings of full and part-time employees in industry and in the service sector of the new Länder amount to 71.5% of hourly earnings in western Germany (EUR 18.21). This is shown by preliminary results of the Federal Statistical Office for the second quarter of 2007 from the new quarterly survey of earnings.
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