Press Statement

Preasráiteas

15 November 2019

Go to release: Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources 2018

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) today (15 November 2019) published the Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS) 2018.

The EAADS presents statistics on earnings based on administrative data sources. The primary data source is the Revenue Commissioner’s P35L dataset of employee annual earnings which is linked to CSO and other data to provide economic and demographic characteristics.

Commenting on the publication, Statistician Morgan O’Donnell said: “After a period of relatively stable earnings from 2011-2015, there have been steady increases in earnings in each of the last three years. Median weekly earnings increased by 1.7%, 2.8% and 2.9% in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively.”

Looking at average earnings by county, Dublin, had the highest median weekly earnings in 2018, at €645.78. This was 9.0% higher than the average for the State and 36.5% higher than the median weekly earnings for Donegal which was the lowest earning county, at €473.12.

The publication also presents analysis on the distribution of earnings. In 2018, 28.7% of all employments earned less than €400 per week. Jobs earning between €400 and €800 per week accounted for 39.4% of all employments. Almost a third (31.9%) of all employments earned more than €800 per week, while 6.5% of employments earned €1,600 or more per week.

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