Table 6.

Trends in ratio of average earnings, selected occupations, to average earnings for physicians, 5 LIS countries, 1991–1997

	Denmark		Netherlands		Russian Federation		United Kingdom		United States of America
	1992	1997	1991	1994	1992	1995	1991	1997	1991	1997
Physicians (reference group)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Nursing and midwifery professionals	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.4	(0.5)	(1.0)	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.2
Other health professionals	0.7	0.8	(1.2)	(1.4)	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.5
Nursing and midwifery associate professionals	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1
Modern health associate professionals	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2
Physical and engineering science professionals	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	1.2	1.2	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.4
Teaching associate professionals	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.2

Note: Occupational classification at the 4-digit ISCO-88 level or equivalent. Figures in parentheses refer to sample size of fewer than 10 cases.