Net annual earnings by country, 2023, European Union (27 countries)
Annual net earnings, after income tax and employee social contributions and including family benefits, of a single person without children earning the average wage. It is a model calculation from the OECD-EC tax-benefit model, not a survey average.
27 places ranked for 2023. Highest: Luxembourg (€48,798 per year). Lowest: Bulgaria (€9,890 per year). The median is €20,555 per year.
Members since the United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020. About this group
Highest 10
- 1. Luxembourg €48,798 per year
- 2. Netherlands €45,156 per year
- 3. Ireland €43,897 per year
- 4. Denmark €42,358 per year
- 5. Austria €38,376 per year
- 6. Germany €37,908 per year
- 7. Finland €36,266 per year
- 8. Belgium €35,439 per year
- 9. Sweden €34,207 per year
- 10. France €31,574 per year
Lowest 10
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Source: Eurostat.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | €48,798 per year | 2023 | |
| 2 | Netherlands | €45,156 per year | 2023 | |
| 3 | Ireland | €43,897 per year | 2023 | |
| 4 | Denmark | €42,358 per year | 2023 | |
| 5 | Austria | €38,376 per year | 2023 | |
| 6 | Germany | €37,908 per year | 2023 | |
| 7 | Finland | €36,266 per year | 2023 | |
| 8 | Belgium | €35,439 per year | 2023 | |
| 9 | Sweden | €34,207 per year | 2023 | |
| 10 | France | €31,574 per year | 2023 | |
| 11 | Italy | €24,593 per year | 2023 | |
| 12 | Spain | €23,597 per year | 2023 | |
| 13 | Cyprus | €23,477 per year | 2023 | |
| 14 | Malta | €20,555 per year | 2023 | |
| 15 | Estonia | €18,142 per year | 2023 | |
| 16 | Greece | €18,022 per year | 2023 | |
| 17 | Czechia | €17,266 per year | 2023 | |
| 18 | Slovenia | €17,114 per year | 2023 | |
| 19 | Portugal | €15,301 per year | 2023 | |
| 20 | Lithuania | €14,783 per year | 2023 | |
| 21 | Poland | €14,487 per year | 2023 | |
| 22 | Latvia | €13,418 per year | 2023 | |
| 23 | Slovakia | €13,028 per year | 2023 | |
| 24 | Hungary | €12,720 per year | 2023 | |
| 25 | Croatia | €12,601 per year | 2023 | |
| 26 | Romania | €10,525 per year | 2023 | |
| 27 | Bulgaria | €9,890 per year | 2023 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2023, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2023 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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