Employment
Employment up 605,100 (28.0%) since COVID-19 low-point in Q2 2020
Q2 2020 – 2,161,300 people in employment
Q4 2024 – 2,766,400 people in employment
Employment
Just under 1.5m people availed of government COVID-19 related support payments during the COVID-19 period
In April 2020 over 1 million people received COVID-19 income support
Earnings
In the five years to Q4 2024 Average hourly earnings increased by 24.7% from €24.23 to €30.21
The smallest % increase was in Transportation & Storage (8.5%) and the largest % increase was in Information & Communication (35.3%)
Air Travel
34 – the number of months to return to pre-pandemic passenger numbers.
25,286 vs 3,380,921 – the number of passengers handled by main airports (April 2020 versus April 2024).
