What is the average wage in Ireland?

cakeisgood

I am just curious to know what is the average wage in Ireland? I read before in a newspaper (cant remember the name) that most workers here earn under 18,000 euros a year. I earn 22,000 and I struggle on this so I dont know how anyone can survive on 18,000 a year unless they are lucky enough to have a partner on a better wage or very generous relatives.

dlofnep

About 35k a year according to this: http://www.cso.ie/quicktables/GetQuickTables.aspx?FileName=EHQ03.asp&TableName=Earnings+and+Labour+Costs&StatisticalProduct=DB_EH

There must be some serious money made at top levels to skew this, because most people are on less than 25k a year.

TheChizler

Any idea what the median wage is? Might give a more appropriate estimate than the average.

Armin_Tamzarian

An anonymous thread poll might help.

Gumbo

Average industrial wage is €41,800 at present according to the CSO stats.

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/earnings/2012/earnlabcosts_q22012.pdf

hognef

dlofnep wrote: »

[...] most people are on less than 25k a year.

Do you have a source to back up that claim?

Brussels Sprout

How is that figure even calculated. Does it include part time workers?

Reekwind

kceire wrote: »

Average industrial wage is €41,800 at present according to the CSO stats.

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/earnings/2012/earnlabcosts_q22012.pdf

What page are you getting that from?

femur61

Don't know if this is a reputable site.
http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Country=Ireland/Hourly_Rate

http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Country=Ireland/Salary



The CSO puts earnings /week at €687 and that is about €35,000/year
http://www.cso.ie/quicktables/GetQuickTables.aspx?FileName=EHQ03.asp&TableName=Earnings+and+Labour+Costs&StatisticalProduct=DB_EH

Is there an alterior motive to your question? A quick search on Google would provide you with all the information!

gozunda

Huge disparity between public wage and private wage levels

with irish public wages being on avaerage well in excess to anything in the private sector

there are of course some exceptions within this but as a rule public sector wages are higher....and have higher rates of pension benefits etc

smcgiff

kceire wrote: »

Average industrial wage is €41,800 at present according to the CSO stats.

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/earnings/2012/earnlabcosts_q22012.pdf

In a specific industry? Doubt if it's everyone. I'd say the figure you quote would not be far off
Average household income

KindOfIrish

kceire wrote: »

Average industrial wage is €41,800 at present according to the CSO stats.

i wonder, what industry is it? public sector and higher level management in banks? qualified accountants?

femur61

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/theyre-on-the-industrial-wage-but-what-exactly-does-that-mean-3174854.html

Here it says it is €33,000/year figures provided by the CSO.

Gumbo

Reekwind wrote: »

What page are you getting that from?

KindOfIrish wrote: »

i wonder, what industry is it? public sector and higher level management in banks? qualified accountants?

http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/average-industrial-wage-in-ireland-576846-Aug2012/

smcgiff wrote: »

In a specific industry? Doubt if it's everyone. I'd say the figure you quote would not be far off
Average household income

Note i said Average Industrial Wage.
Average Wage across all sectors from above is 35k

NakedNNettles

I wouldn't be so quick to dispute 41k at all.

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k the greedy pigs are slurping more than their fair share from the trough. 100k plus

This huge divide of rich and poor could leave the average figure well around the 40 mark. That doesn't make it the average salary though for the majority in this country though.

markpb

NakedNNettles wrote: »

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k the greedy pigs are slurping more than their fair share from the trough. 100k plus.

People are greedy pigs because they earn a good salary now? It couldn't be because they went to college, worked hard, put in long hours and are valued by their employers?

Ziphius

TheChizler wrote: »

Any idea what the median wage is? Might give a more appropriate estimate than the average.

Well, according to this Economist article from the vague time period of the "mid-2000s" :http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/09/income_inequality_0
The median wage in Ireland is between US$20,000 and US$25,000. This is takes purchasing power parity into account so I'm not sure how you translate this into Euro.

hognef

NakedNNettles wrote: »

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k [...]

Source?

Geuze

Wage and income stats are published by the CSO.

www.cso.ie

Earnings data are here:

http://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/earnings/


The most recent Earnings and Lab Costs report is here:

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/earnings/2012/earnlabcosts_q22012.pdf

Geuze

Most recent data:

Average weekly earnings = 688 pw

Average hourly earnings = 22 ph


That means average yearly earnings of 35,776.

Geuze

Note that earnings data is not the same as household income data.

Household income include all forms of income, not just earned income, and of course many households have several earners.

Household income data is provided by the HBS and SILC surveys.

HBS 2009/10
http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/housing/2010/0910first.pdf

SILC 2010:

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/silc/2010/silc_2010.pdf

Geuze

HBS 2009/10 household income data:

Average gross income, incl social transfers = 1027 pw

Tax = 141 pw (=14%, low tax economy)

Average disp income = 886 pw

NB: all figures averaged across all households, not per person.

Gumbo

ignore, totally misread the post.

spacetweek

dlofnep wrote: »

There must be some serious money made at top levels to skew this, because most people are on less than 25k a year.

NakedNNettles wrote: »

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k the greedy pigs are slurping more than their fair share from the trough. 100k plus

It's interesting to me that there seems to be a particular age group/demographic on here. May I ask how old you guys are? And what industry you work in?

I don't know anyone who makes less than 25k. The only time that occurred briefly to me or anyone I know was when we graduated and got crappy starter salaries, but within about 6 months we were all > 25k. These are typical wages in lreland.

Nobody makes less than 25k unless they are only 6 months in the job or it's sweeping the streets.

Jelle1880

OP: Do you own a house, or rent ?

Because when I lived in Ireland I had 20.500, and that was plenty.

Markcheese

spacetweek wrote: »

dlofnep wrote: »

There must be some serious money made at top levels to skew this, because most people are on less than 25k a year.

NakedNNettles wrote: »

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k the greedy pigs are slurping more than their fair share from the trough. 100k plus

It's interesting to me that there seems to be a particular age group/demographic on here. May I ask how old you guys are? And what industry you work in?

I don't know anyone who makes less than 25k. The only time that occurred briefly to me or anyone I know was when we graduated and got crappy starter salaries, but within about 6 months we were all > 25k. These are typical wages in lreland.

Nobody makes less than 25k unless they are only 6 months in the job or it's sweeping the streets.

And that's another reason why the country is fecked....

coolshannagh28

spacetweek wrote: »

dlofnep wrote: »

There must be some serious money made at top levels to skew this, because most people are on less than 25k a year.

NakedNNettles wrote: »

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k the greedy pigs are slurping more than their fair share from the trough. 100k plus

It's interesting to me that there seems to be a particular age group/demographic on here. May I ask how old you guys are? And what industry you work in?

I don't know anyone who makes less than 25k. The only time that occurred briefly to me or anyone I know was when we graduated and got crappy starter salaries, but within about 6 months we were all > 25k. These are typical wages in lreland.

Nobody makes less than 25k unless they are only 6 months in the job or it's sweeping the streets.

What % of the population graduates college and enters a profession . Come down from that ivory tower !

Dannyboy83

spacetweek wrote: »

Nobody makes less than 25k unless they are only 6 months in the job or it's sweeping the streets.

Or works in an IT company... (not within Dublin granted, but outside, certainly)

Geuze

Maybe Boards is populated with a lot of young people...??

I know couples on 150k.

Many of my colleagues are on 75k.

None of my friends are on 25k, unless starting out in jobs.

The average hourly earnings in Ireland are 22 per hour.

TheChizler

Markcheese wrote: »

spacetweek wrote: »

dlofnep wrote: »

There must be some serious money made at top levels to skew this, because most people are on less than 25k a year.

NakedNNettles wrote: »

While the vast majority of the population are on less than 25k the greedy pigs are slurping more than their fair share from the trough. 100k plus

It's interesting to me that there seems to be a particular age group/demographic on here. May I ask how old you guys are? And what industry you work in?

I don't know anyone who makes less than 25k. The only time that occurred briefly to me or anyone I know was when we graduated and got crappy starter salaries, but within about 6 months we were all > 25k. These are typical wages in lreland.

Nobody makes less than 25k unless they are only 6 months in the job or it's sweeping the streets.

And that's another reason why the country is fecked....

Cause some people earn a degree and earn more taxable income?

strandroad

TheChizler wrote: »

Cause some people earn a degree and earn more taxable income?

Because people with a degree don't understand what average means; and that to get a €35k average one guy on €75k must be balanced by a bunch of €25k folks.