Half of Belgians find their wages too low

Out of 33,000 people surveyed by recruitment platform Jobat, 49 percent found that their workload was too heavy in relation to the money it earned them. Top of the dissatisfaction chart was the catering trade (63 percent), followed by the distribution, retail and health care sectors (60 percent). Employees of energy and water suppliers are the happiest with a dissatisfaction level of 28 percent. Manual workers (61 percent) are more likely to be unhappy about their wages than office workers (51 percent) and those in middle management (37 percent).