Median, or mid-point, gross weekly earnings stood at €759.21 in 2025, an increase of 3.9% from €730.89 in 2024. During the same period, mean weekly earnings rose by 3.3% to €974.08 in 2025.
The median weekly earnings for employments among males were €832.71 in 2025, more than €150 higher than those among females at €681.01.
The lowest median weekly earnings were recorded for employments among 15 to 24 year olds, at €384.07, while employments among those aged 40 to 49 years had the highest weekly earnings at €925.54 in 2025.
The median weekly earnings recorded for employments among those usually resident in Dublin were €848.06, which was 11.7% higher than the median weekly earnings for the State at €759.21, and 33.5% higher than Donegal at €635.29, which had the lowest median weekly earnings in 2025.
Median weekly earnings among Irish nationals stood at €792.89 in 2025, an increase of 4.0% from €762.72 in 2024.
While Indian nationals recorded the highest median weekly earnings at €862.14 in 2025, they were the only group from the individually listed nationalities to record a decrease in median weekly earnings in 2025, down 1.6% from €876.04 in 2024.
Employments in the Information & Communication (€1,515.67) and Financial, Insurance & Real Estate (€1,086.76) sectors recorded the highest median weekly earnings in 2025, while the lowest median weekly earnings were recorded among employments in Accommodation & Food Services (€409.00).
The Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS) release presents gross earnings statistics compiled based on administrative data sources. The primary data source is the Revenue Commissioner’s employee tax data. This is linked to the CSO Business Register and other data to provide economic and demographic breakdowns of employee earnings in Ireland. The data used for this analysis has been restricted to employments that were active in the month of October 2025.
| X-axis label | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3.7 | 7.3 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 4.2 | 4 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 4.1 | 5 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| Table 1.1 Median1 weekly earnings by sex, 2020 - 2025 | ||||||||||
| Sex | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Annual Change (2024 - 2025) | Five Year Change (2020 - 2025) | ||
| € | % | % | ||||||||
| Male | 690.56 | 711.87 | 741.86 | 770.52 | 802.14 | 832.71 | 3.8 | 20.6 | ||
| Female | 561.23 | 570.22 | 592.92 | 623.22 | 654.07 | 681.01 | 4.1 | 21.3 | ||
| Total | 629.46 | 644.55 | 670.90 | 699.28 | 730.89 | 759.21 | 3.9 | 20.6 | ||
| Source: CSO Ireland, Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources | ||||||||||
| 1Median weekly earnings: Half of the employments earn more than this amount and half earn less. | ||||||||||
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (06 October 2026) published Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS) for 2025.
The Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS) is an annual release that provides annual detailed insights into the typical earnings of people working in Ireland. It uses the Revenue Commissioner's employee tax data as a primary data source and is linked to other CSO data to give a comprehensive picture of earnings across the country.
Commenting on the data, Dr Eimear Heffernan, Statistician in the Earnings Analysis division of the CSO said: “Median gross weekly earnings stood at €759.21 in 2025, up 3.9% on the €730.89 figure in 2024. Over the same period, the Consumer Price Index increased by 2.2%. The median weekly earnings recorded for employments among males (€832.71) in 2025 were more than €150 higher than those among females (€681.01). However, since 2023, median weekly earnings for employments among females have increased by 9.3%, compared with 8.1% among males. It is important to note that data in relation to hours worked is not available in the EAADS dataset, however data provided by the CSO's Labour Force Survey (LFS) can provide further context around average hours worked (QLF 25, QLF 33, QLF 36). Table QLF 33 shows that in Q4 2025, males had higher average hours worked per week (38.7), compared with their female counterparts (31.8). A similar trend was observed across each quarter of 2025.
Almost one-fifth of employments (19.1%) recorded earnings of less than €400 per week in 2025. Of those employments earning less than €400 per week, 63.1% were represented by females and 36.6% by males. A considerable portion (39.8%) of the employments in this earnings bracket were among employees aged 15 to 24 years. In contrast,13.4% of employments recorded weekly earnings of €1,600 or more in 2025, of which 64.1% were male and 35.9% were female. More than one-third (34.0%) of employments with weekly earnings of at least €1,600 were aged 50 years and over, indicating that earnings tend to increase with age.
Earnings by Economic Sector
Employments in Information & Communication (€1,515.67), Financial, Insurance & Real Estate (€1,086.76), and Public Administration & Defence (€1,033.04) recorded the highest median weekly earnings in 2025, while those in Accommodation & Food Services (€409.00) and Arts, Entertainment, Recreation & Other Services (€464.63) recorded the lowest. The age profile of employees likely had an impact on the sectoral earnings. While almost two-thirds (63.6%) of employments in the Information & Communication sector were represented by those aged 30 to 49 years, 49.9% of employments in Accommodation & Food Services were recorded among those aged under 30 years.
In terms of public and private sector employments, the median weekly earnings among public sector employments (€1,051.48) were 53.7% higher than those in the private sector (€684.00) in 2025. Few employments in the public sector were held by the youth: 5.4% of employments in the public sector were recorded among those aged 15 to 24 years in 2025, compared with 17.1% of employments in the private sector.
Earnings by Nationality
As of 2025, Irish nationals accounted for the largest proportion of employments (71.4%), followed by those from the EU excluding Ireland (11.9%). Irish nationals contributed 74.5% of the total earnings in 2025, down 1.0 percentage point since 2024.
Median weekly earnings among Irish nationals stood at €792.89 in 2025, an increase of 4.0% on the previous year. Of the nationalities individually listed in the analysis, Indian nationals were the only group to record a decrease in median weekly earnings (-1.6%), despite recording the highest median weekly earnings (€862.14). It is possible that the decrease in median weekly earnings among Indian nationals was linked to the decrease in the proportion of employments among Indian nationals in Human Health & Social Work (-1.7 percentage points), Information & Communication (-1.1 percentage points), and Professional, Scientific & Technical Activities (-0.8 percentage points) since 2024, as these are typically high earning economic sectors.”
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