Incomes

The average net household income (after social, pension and health insurance contributions) in
Paris was 36,085 for 2011.[172] It ranged from 22,095 in the 19th arrondissement[173] to
82,449 in the 7th arrondissement.[174] The median taxable income for 2011 was around 25,000
in Paris and 22,200 for le-de-France.[175] Generally speaking, incomes are higher in the
Western part of the city and in the western suburbs than in the northern and eastern parts of the
urban area.[citation needed] Unemployment was estimated at 8.2 percent in the city of Paris and 8.8
percent in the le-de-France region in the first trimester of 2015. It ranged from 7.6 percent in the
wealthy Essonne department to 13.1 percent in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, where many
recent immigrants live.[176]
While Paris has some of the richest neighbourhoods in France, it also has some of the poorest,
mostly on the eastern side of the city. In 2012, 14 percent of households in the city earned less
than 977 per month, the official poverty line. Twenty-five percent of residents in the 19th
arrondissement lived below the poverty line; 24 percent in the 18th, 22 percent in the 20th and 18
percent in the 10th. In the city's wealthiest neighbourhood, the 7th arrondissement, 7 percent
lived below the poverty line; 8 percent in the 6th arrondissement; and 9 percent in the 16th
arrondissement.[177]

Tourism

Tourists from around the world make the Louvre the most visited art museum in the world.

Greater Paris (the city plus surrounding departments) received 22,4 million visitors in 2014,
making it one of the world's top tourist destinations. The largest numbers of foreign tourists in
2014 came from the United States (2.74 million), the U.K., Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and

China (532,000). Arrivals from the U.K, Germany, Russia and Japan dropped from 2013, while
arrivals from the Near and Middle East grew by twenty percent.[178]
In 2014, visitors to Paris spent $17 billion (13.58 billion), the third-highest sum globally after
London and New York.[179] In 2012, according to the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau,
263,212 salaried workers in the city of Paris, or 18.4 percent of the total number, were engaged
in tourism-related sectors: hotels, catering, transport and leisure.