EU annual full-time-adjusted salary rises 4.3% to €41,500 in 2025
Eurostat says the annual average rose 4.3% from 2024, providing a benchmark for full-time-adjusted pay across the bloc.
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Eurostat says the annual average rose 4.3% from 2024, providing a benchmark for full-time-adjusted pay across the bloc.
The EU’s average annual full-time-adjusted salary rose to €41,500 in 2025 from €39,800 in 2024, Eurostat said in figures published on 6 November 2026. The measure converts salaries into an average for full-time work, including an adjustment for part-time employees. Eurostat’s release puts the increase at 4.3%.
Eurostat had previously published a 5.2% increase for 2024, a comparison based on the earlier publication rather than an updated growth series.
Luxembourg, Denmark and Ireland had the highest averages in 2025; Bulgaria, Greece and Hungary had the lowest.
| Country | Salary |
|---|---|
| Luxembourg | €85,600 |
| Denmark | €73,500 |
| Ireland | €64,400 |
| Bulgaria | €16,200 |
| Greece | €18,800 |
| Hungary | €20,100 |
Eurostat divides wages and salaries in national accounts by the number of employees. It then adjusts the result using a labor force survey’s ratio of usual weekly hours for full-time employees to those for all employees, producing a gross mean for the calendar year before deductions, rather than the median salary or take-home pay.
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The figures use current prices and are not adjusted for inflation. They therefore do not establish how much any individual’s pay rose or whether that person could buy more with it.
Eurostat says its common method supports comparisons among 26 member states, but other indicators can use different sources and methods. It also cautions that the survey and national accounts cover different groups: the survey excludes some workers, including people who commute abroad daily, which can have significant effects in small countries such as Luxembourg.
The survey counts weekly hours only in a person’s main job, so Eurostat says the adjustment ratio is slightly overestimated, although it expects the effect to be very small.
Eurostat says it updates the indicator annually after national accounts data are transmitted, a process scheduled nine months after the reference year. The underlying estimates can be revised, and major changes in methods or classifications can lead to revisions far back through historical data.
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