High-paid jobs saw salary hike during Covid-19 lockdown, says PLFS

The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2019-20 has found that average salary of those in the regular wage/salaried status actually rose by 5 per cent in the lockdown period from the previous quarter

Jobs were lost, person-days in casual labour fell massively, and incomes of the lowest earning among the population were hit the most during the period when the nationwide lockdown of 2020 was in place, the latest data released by the National Statistical Office shows. 

Employment fell across all categories: salaried, casual labour and self-employed, but there was a sharp increase in the exodus from these categories to agriculture in July-June 2019-20, compared to July-June 2018-19.  The share of workers employed in agriculture increased from 42.5 per cent in 2018-19 to 45.6 per cent in 2019-10. Manufacturing jobs’ share in total fell