A tale of two data sets: comparing German administrative and survey data using wage inequality as an example

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 8 Summary statistics SIAB, comparable sample 2

No. of observations	Mean wage	Median wage	Mean age
10,808,103	33,353.38	28,406.06	42.13

Source: wn calculations, SIAB 7519, years 2000–2019
Wage: nominal annual wage in euro, mean over (median of) all observations of the sample. Age: mean age in years
Only wages above the marginal earnings threshold are taken into account