2022 Edition 14 MONTHLY STATISTICAL BULLETIN Average monthly earnings in Cities and Functional Urban Areas are higher than the national average At the European Union level, Eurostat has defined, in addition to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), the following relevant territorial typologies: • Cities, or densely populated areas: territorial units at the level of local administrative units where at least 50% of the population lives in urban centres; • Commuting zones: territorial units at the level of local administrative units from which at least 15% of the employed population commutes to the city to work/study, including enclaves and excluding exclaves; • Functional Urban Areas (FUA): a city and its surrounding area, delimited based on commuter movements; In the case of Portugal, the following were defined: • 16 cities: Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Faro, Funchal, Guimarães, Lisboa, Paredes, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Setúbal, Sintra, Viana do Castelo, Vila Franca de Xira, and Viseu; • 12 Functional Urban Areas (FUA), comprising the city and its commuting zone: Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Faro, Funchal, Guimarães, Lisboa, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Viana do Castelo, and Viseu. In 2020: • In the 16 Portuguese cities, there were 1,133,890 full-time, fully paid employees, representing 51% of the total; • In the 12 Functional Urban Areas (FUA), 1,360,456 employees were active (61% of the total). The Lisboa and Porto FUAs accounted for 46% of the working employees in Portugal; • Only the FUAs of Faro, Coimbra, and Póvoa de Varzim had a higher number of resident employees than the employees working there; • The mean monthly earnings of employees in all cities (€1,408) and FUA (€1,366) were higher than the national average (€1,247), but the disparities were also higher than in the country;
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