Table 3: Incomes of registered nurses in selected OECD countries: net incomes, deductions, weekly hours and gross annual incomes, 2010 or latest available year (incomes in US ppp dollars).

Country

Net monthly income
(ppp dollars)

Compulsory deductions

Weekly hours

Gross annual income
(ppp dollars)

 

Australia

 

2,703

 

21%

 

38

 

41,058

Austria

2,101

33%

40

37,629

Canada

2,217

30%

31.7

38,057

Finland

1,867

30%

38.2

32,005

France (i)

2,379

0%

35

28,548

Germany

2,078

27%

39

34,158

Italy

1,509

28%

36

25,150

Japan

1,820

16%

-

26,000

Norway

2,229

31%

37.5

38,765

UK

2,397

27%

35.7

39,402

US

3,168

22%

33

48,738

 

Source: [79] Deductions include income tax, social security, compulsory health insurance etc, (i) working hours in France are formally 35 hours since 2005.