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Date Last Updated: 02-09-2024

Survey Name:

Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources

Survey purpose:

This release presents earnings statistics based on administrative data sources. The primary data source is the Revenue Commissioner’s employee tax data, P35 (2011-2018) and PMOD (2019-2023), which is linked to CSO and other data to provide demographic breakdowns of earnings similar to those previously provided by the National Employment Survey (NES). This release does not replicate all the tables available from the former NES; it does not contain any breakdown of hours worked or hourly earnings.

Legislative Basis National:

Not applicable

Legislative Basis European:

Not applicable

Periodicity:

Annual

Statistical Population:

All employments except as detailed below: employees earning less than €500 per annum, employments where the duration was less than two weeks in the year, secondary employments earning less than €4,000 per annum, extremely high earnings values, observations with missing employer and employee reference numbers employment activity in NACE sectors A, T and U.

Sampling Frame:

All employments except as detailed below: employees earning less than €500 per annum, employments where the duration was less than two weeks in the year, secondary employments earning less than €4,000 per annum, extremely high earnings values, observations with missing employer and employee reference numbers employment activity in NACE sectors A, T and U.

Reference Area:

State, Region.

Time Coverage:

2011 - 2023

Base Period:

N/A

Sector Coverage:

NACE Rev2 B - S

Survey Size:

N/A

Principal Variables:

Mean and Median Weekly earnings by: Gender, NACE Principal Activity, Public/Private Sector status, Age Group, Nationality, Region

Principal External Users:

EU and all national users

Contact Organisation:

Central Statistics Office

Business Area:

Social & Demographic Statistics

Contact Person:

Eimear Heffernan

Contact Person Function:

Statistician

Other Business Area Specialists:

Tricia Brew

Contact email:

earnings@cso.ie

Contact phone number:

(+353) 21 453 5000