In 2023 in Milan the salaries of private sector employees averaged €34,343 gross per year, an increase of 3.3% compared to 2022, in essence €1,103 more; Milan is the province where people earn the most, and also the one where - in absolute values, that is, in euros - salaries have grown the most in the last year. More generally, Lombardy remains the most dynamic area of the country: it dominates the regional ranking (on average it stands at €29,305, detaching Emilia-Romagna, second in the list, by almost €4,000), and in the top ten provinces there are also Monza (2nd, €28,833), Lecco (7th, €26,767), Bergamo (9th, €26,083) and Varese (10th, €26,059). But the average hides strong inequalities. In the Milanese area, the average salary of a blue collar worker (a qualification that includes the lowest contractual levels of different sectors, from bartenders to salespeople in commerce) in 2023 was €17,886, among office workers it rises to 31,483 euros, middle managers reach €75,753, and executives €184,717. That is, the salary of an executive is, on average, 10.3 times that of a worker, while at the national level this gap is "only" 9 times. And it is a gap that has been getting wider and wider, in Milan: from 2013 to 2023, blue-collar pay increased by 7.2%, white-collar pay by 12.4%, middle management pay by 18.9%, and executive pay by 26.1%.