BRIEFING LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE HIGH INEQUALITIES AND DISTORTIONS REMAINING Hungarian Wages Real income per capita and real wages are experiencing a continuous increase since 2012, having reached pre­financial crises levels again in 2014 and 2015 respectively . In other words, the wages of the best-paid 428,000 employees are equal to the wages of other almost 2.8 million people . Pál Belyó June 2020 In 2019, i.e. before the Corona­crises, approximately two thirds of the Hungarian population said to be financially unpre­pared for any unexpected expenses .