Net annual earnings by country, 2023, OECD (38 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.

28 places ranked for 2023. Highest: Switzerland (€82,060 per year). Lowest: Türkiye (€8,768 per year). The median is €29,218 per year.

Unit: euro per year Source: Eurostat Trend, map and download

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Highest 10

  1. 1. Switzerland €82,060 per year
  2. 2. Iceland €54,539 per year
  3. 3. Luxembourg €48,798 per year
  4. 4. United States €47,398 per year
  5. 5. Norway €45,795 per year
  6. 6. Netherlands €45,156 per year
  7. 7. Ireland €43,897 per year
  8. 8. Denmark €42,358 per year
  9. 9. Austria €38,376 per year
  10. 10. Germany €37,908 per year

Lowest 10

  1. 28. Türkiye €8,768 per year
  2. 27. Hungary €12,720 per year
  3. 26. Slovakia €13,028 per year
  4. 25. Latvia €13,418 per year
  5. 24. Poland €14,487 per year
  6. 23. Lithuania €14,783 per year
  7. 22. Portugal €15,301 per year
  8. 21. Slovenia €17,114 per year
  9. 20. Czechia €17,266 per year
  10. 19. Greece €18,022 per year

Source: Eurostat.

Full ranking

Net annual earnings by country, 2023, OECD (38 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Switzerland €82,060 per year 2023
2 Iceland €54,539 per year 2023
3 Luxembourg €48,798 per year 2023
4 United States €47,398 per year 2023
5 Norway €45,795 per year 2023
6 Netherlands €45,156 per year 2023
7 Ireland €43,897 per year 2023
8 Denmark €42,358 per year 2023
9 Austria €38,376 per year 2023
10 Germany €37,908 per year 2023
11 Finland €36,266 per year 2023
12 Belgium €35,439 per year 2023
13 Sweden €34,207 per year 2023
14 France €31,574 per year 2023
15 Japan €26,862 per year 2023
16 Italy €24,593 per year 2023
17 Spain €23,597 per year 2023
18 Estonia €18,142 per year 2023
19 Greece €18,022 per year 2023
20 Czechia €17,266 per year 2023
21 Slovenia €17,114 per year 2023
22 Portugal €15,301 per year 2023
23 Lithuania €14,783 per year 2023
24 Poland €14,487 per year 2023
25 Latvia €13,418 per year 2023
26 Slovakia €13,028 per year 2023
27 Hungary €12,720 per year 2023
28 Türkiye €8,768 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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