CSO Mean irish salary different from Eurostat

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

Im trying to find the most recent mean and median salary of an irish person.

CSO tells me the mean weekly salary and thus I can work out an annual salary(about €37.7k gross).

Euro stat has mean and median, but it doesnt agree at all with the CSO.
e.g. mean income for an irish person on eurostat is €25.5k. Initially i thought this was net, after tax, but even adding tax, the mean comes out at about €30k, €7k below the irish estimate.

Anyone advise if the difference is legit and what accounts for it?

I tried to look but your Eurostat link doesn't work.

In relation to the CSO figures, they are talking about employees.

Without seeing it, I can't be sure about the Eurostat figure, but I would guess from your statement "mean income for an irish person on eurostat" that they are referring to income for an average Irish person, which would include employees, self-employed, as well as social welfare recipient etc. That would result in a different figure.

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

apologies, eurostat link is updated. Note it displays median by default, you need to add mean to the "Income and living conditions indicator" in the top left.

That table, with a median income of €22,407 is looking at the median income of single person households, including only households of single people, whether employed or unemployed. It is a very different measure to the CSO one, which only is looking at employees, but is looking at them no matter what size of household.

Essentially, the two figures are counting apples and oranges.

No matter what I do with the Eurostat figures, I can't exclude the unemployed or the people not active in the workforce.