IELTS Writing task 1: Bar chart (03-2018)

The chart below shows the annual pay (thousands of US dollars) for doctors and other workers in seven countries in 2004

Task

The bar chart compares the payment each year for doctors and other workers in different nations in 2004.

Overall, the US paid the largest annual salary for both positions and also recorded the widest gap between these two figures. Doctors’ salaries were always higher than other workers’.

In 2004, annual payment for doctors in the US was 120 thousand US dollars, which nearly tripled the amount of money that other workers in this country received. The figures for doctors in France and Switzerland were equal, at about 70 thousand US dollars, but other workers in the former were paid lower than in the latter, at about 40 and 30 thousand dollars.

In Germany and Czech, doctors were offered roughly 65 thousand dollars each year, compared to 60 in Italy. The lowest payment for this job was found in Finland, with only 50 thousand US dollars. Meanwhile, this nation offered a higher annual payment for other workers, at 25 thousand US dollars, than in Italy, Czech and Germany where they were offered equally, at 20 thousand dollars.

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