Compensation per employee and hours worked per employed person by NUTS 2 region and by industry by country
Countries reporting
32
Highest
88,900
Luxembourg
Lowest
10,000
North Macedonia
Median
36,950
Years covered
25
2000–2024
Data points
8,369
What the numbers show
Compensation per employee and hours worked per employed person by NUTS 2 region and by industry is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 88,900 in Luxembourg; the lowest is 10,000 in North Macedonia.
The median across all reporting countries is 36,950, and the mean is 39,653.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9.
Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Romania (up 145.5%), and the largest decrease in Greece (down 5.0%).
Compensation per employee and hours worked per employed person by: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | 88,900 | 2024 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 2 | Belgium | 71,700 | 2024 | up 32.5% | rising |
| 3 | Denmark | 66,300 | 2024 | up 26.8% | rising |
| 4 | Ireland | 61,600 | 2023 | up 34.8% | rising |
| 5 | Netherlands | 57,900 | 2023 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 6 | Austria | 56,300 | 2023 | up 33.7% | rising |
| 7 | France | 55,200 | 2024 | up 20.8% | rising |
| 8 | Finland | 53,200 | 2023 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 9 | Germany | 52,900 | 2023 | up 36.3% | rising |
| 10 | Guadeloupe | 51,000 | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 11 | Sweden | 49,400 | 2023 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 11 | Mayotte | 49,400 | 2024 | up 62.0% | rising |
| 13 | Martinique | 48,100 | 2024 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 14 | Italy | 41,100 | 2023 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 15 | Spain | 40,500 | 2024 | up 30.2% | rising |
| 16 | Slovenia | 39,400 | 2024 | up 61.5% | rising |
| 17 | Malta | 34,500 | 2024 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 18 | Cyprus | 33,700 | 2024 | up 36.4% | rising |
| 19 | Estonia | 33,200 | 2024 | up 98.8% | rising |
| 20 | Czechia | 29,900 | 2024 | up 99.3% | rising |
| 21 | Lithuania | 29,500 | 2024 | up 134.1% | volatile |
| 22 | Portugal | 28,700 | 2023 | up 38.6% | rising |
| 23 | Latvia | 26,700 | 2024 | up 103.8% | rising |
| 24 | Croatia | 26,600 | 2024 | up 69.4% | rising |
| 25 | Slovakia | 24,700 | 2023 | up 65.8% | rising |
| 26 | Poland | 21,000 | 2023 | up 70.7% | rising |
| 27 | Greece | 20,900 | 2023 | down 5.0% | flat |
| 28 | Romania | 18,900 | 2023 | up 145.5% | rising |
| 29 | Hungary | 18,500 | 2023 | up 54.2% | rising |
| 30 | Bulgaria | 15,600 | 2023 | up 136.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Serbia | 13,600 | 2023 | up 86.3% | rising |
| 32 | North Macedonia | 10,000 | 2023 | up 92.3% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest 86,700
- Prov. Vlaams-Brabant 79,800
- Prov. Brabant wallon 78,900
- Hovedstaden 74,300
- Prov. Antwerpen 73,800
- Vlaams Gewest 70,900
- Ile de France 70,500
- Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen 69,000
- Noord-Holland 67,400
- Eastern and Midland 66,500
- Danmark 66,100
- Prov. West-Vlaanderen 64,800
- Région wallonne 64,800
- Prov. Liège 64,300
- Prov. Limburg (BE) 63,900
- Oberbayern 63,800
- Prov. Namur 63,400
- Hamburg 62,900
- Utrecht 62,900
- West-Nederland 62,700
- Syddanmark 62,300
- Darmstadt 62,200
- Midtjylland 62,100
- Wien 61,800
- Prov. Hainaut 61,800
- Stuttgart 61,200
- Extra-Regio NUTS 1 59,700
- Extra-Regio NUTS 2 59,700
- Prov. Luxembourg (BE) 59,600
- Sjælland 59,600
- Nordjylland 59,600
- Zuid-Holland 59,400
- Helsinki-Uusimaa 59,100
- Hessen 58,800
- Ostösterreich 58,000
- Vorarlberg 57,700
- Stockholm 57,700
- Southern 57,700
- Berlin 56,800
- Baden-Württemberg 56,400