SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's real wage, adjusted for inflation, rose for the third straight month amid a continued increase in nominal wage, labor ministry data showed Thursday.
The per-capita nominal monthly average wage in businesses with one or more regular employees gained 3.1 percent from a year earlier to 4,750,000 won (about 3,340 U.S. dollars) in December 2025, keeping an upward trend since August last year, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor.
The real monthly wage grew 0.7 percent in December on a yearly basis, slower than an expansion of 1.6 percent in the previous month.
The headline inflation hovered around the central bank's mid-term inflation target of 2.0 percent in recent months, with 1.7 percent in August, 2.4 percent in October and 2.3 percent in December.
The monthly average working hours per employee in the businesses swelled 3.4 percent to 163.2 hours in December compared to the same month of 2024.
The manufacturing industry recorded the longest monthly working hours of 178.8, followed by the water supply, sewage and waste management, and materials recovery sector with 178.0 hours.
The construction industry logged the shortest working hours of 136.2 in the cited month. Enditem
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