Realwage

Graphs the real wage evolution of a Swedish worker using monthly Consumer Price Index data from Statistics Sweden from 2006 and onwards.

Installing the realwage Package

The following steps describe how to install realwage from GitHub.

1. Install devtools

install.packages('devtools')

2. Load devtools

library(devtools)

3. Install realwage

install_github('JonasEngstrom/realwage', build_vignettes = TRUE)

4. Load realwage

library(realwage)

Get Started Using the realwage Package

1. Install and Load the tibble Package

install.packages('tibble')
library(tibble)

2. Make a tibble Object of Past Salaries

The tibble needs to have year, month, and salary columns.

wage_table <- tibble(year = c(2020, 2021, 2022),
                     month = c(3, 3, 3),
                     salary = c(30000, 30250, 31000))

3. Plot Inflation Adjusted Salary

calculate_and_plot_adjusted_salary(wage_table)

Learn More

Run the following command, to learn more about how realwage can be used.

browseVignettes('realwage')