The same job, country by country
The spine · 38 occupations
38MATCHED JOBS
The same job, in every country that publishes a comparable figure for it — read at today's exchange rate and again at what money buys locally.
SOURCE·National statistics agencies (7 countries)·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Every matched occupation
- Registered nurse 5 countries
- Software developer 5 countries
- Electrician 5 countries
- Accountant 5 countries
- Secondary school teacher 4 countries
- Primary school teacher 4 countries
- Doctor / general practitioner 5 countries
- Civil engineer 4 countries
- Mechanical engineer 4 countries
- Electrical engineer 4 countries
- Plumber 5 countries
- Carpenter 5 countries
- Chef 5 countries
- Truck driver 5 countries
- Pharmacist 5 countries
- Dentist 3 countries
- Lawyer / solicitor 4 countries
- Police officer 3 countries
- Architect 5 countries
- Graphic designer 4 countries
- Data scientist 5 countries
- Marketing manager 4 countries
- Human resources manager 3 countries
- Financial analyst 5 countries
- Welder 5 countries
- Hairdresser 5 countries
- Bus driver 5 countries
- Security guard 4 countries
- Receptionist 4 countries
- Cleaner 3 countries
- Chemical engineer 4 countries
- Air traffic controller 3 countries
- Airline pilot 4 countries
- Psychologist 5 countries
- Physiotherapist 5 countries
- Veterinarian 4 countries
- Social worker 5 countries
- Cyber security analyst 3 countries
How one occupation is matched across five classification systems
- Each country uses its own classification — SOC in America, SOC2020 in Britain, NOC in Canada, ANZSCO in Australia, ISCO-08 at the ILO.
- Matching them mechanically produces nonsense, so the spine is curated by hand: a country joins a comparison only when its classification contains a genuinely equivalent occupation.
- Where a country publishes several narrow specialisms instead of one broad occupation, the comparison page names the specific one used.
- Where no equivalent exists, the country is listed as not shown rather than filled in with something close.
