What is the average salary in Ireland if we were to exclude minimum wager jobs such as retail 70 to 100k would be my guess.
45 k would be my guess
No chance judging by the replies in the discussions about savings and salaries much higher.
Average salary of people who post their salaries on boards/reddit/askaboutmoney - approx €120k.
Reality is very much lower.
What is the average salary in Ireland? The average salary in Ireland in 2023 is around €45,000.
People on higher salaries more likely to want to post and say how well they are doing.
If we exclude the minimum wage jobs I said then it would be much higer?
Hardly anyone actually earns minimum wage in this country, so average reported is about right.
Why dont you go and do your own googling so to see if you can find the information for further discussion. I dont think any of that infor would be readily available.
Dont tesco and all those mobile shops pay around minimum wage no?
Don't mind what people post anonymously on boards. It's all mickey waving and points scoring.
I worked in financial services doing pensions, life insurance, investments etc and the vast vast majority of people getting mortgages and starting pensions etc were in the 40 to 50k range. Yes their incomes might go up in time when promoted but then they are replaced by someone else earning the 40-50 and in turn they replace a retiree.
Yes there were outliers earning more and of course there are plenty earning less.
If the average was 70 to 100k, so 140 to 200k combined, we wouldn't be taking about an average house price in the country of somewhere in the region of 350k being out of reach for the average Joe would we?
6.4% of the workforce earn minimum wage back in Q4 2019, removing them from the average calculation will not make much difference to the national average.
Plenty of people online saying they have mortages of 500 600 k someone must be buying those homes on daft. In addition even on 80k at 3.5 times your income you would struggle to buy the 350k home. Single person I am talking about here couples would be different for sure
Ok
A friend of mine used to tell us all he had a salary of €150k many years ago.
I joined his company and was working on the salary data and found out his salary was actually €80k.
People inflate their salary when talking to people they even know.
Why bit sad really?
See that 33261.63 figure? That's the take home pay of 51 employees I have just processed a payroll for tomorrows pay.
Tradesmen, general operatives, admin staff, receptionist, bookkeepers.
So it's somewhere around 650 a week take home on average although there's a good bit of overtime in there too. There's a few perks and things not listed there too.
Theres a sample of 51 men and women between the ages of 19 and 56 and what they earn. Not going into industry specifics but I'd say its a decent mix and representative of the country as a whole.
988 is the highest take home this week and 437 is the lowest.
There are some of us monthly including myself (see I'm mickey waving now) that are higher earners (management) but there'd only 14 of us on monthly pay so it won't drag the average up that much..
Also worth saying that 33k take home is from gross pay of just under 40k.
So 51 People earning just under 800 euro average per week before tax which is the common figure. Close to the published average or 45k.p.a. which I saw in financial services so often too
And let's remember tha tthe "Average" is dragged up by high earning outliers.
Not sure about industry average or how times have changed but Meteor pay back in the day was savage, nowhere near min wage.
A bit of keeping up with the Joneses i think. The rest of us were all in high paying jobs and he wasnt, but he used to pretend he was because it made him feel better i suppose. The funny thing is that it used to be him who would start the conversations comparing salaries. I never told anyone, not even him that i knew his salary anyway.
What do you consider savage?
Median income is a better marker for what you are looking for i think.
I dont have stats on what the median income is though.
CSO have some publication each year where you can see if you are in the top 1, 5, 10 50 percent of earners. Cant remember what its called now. People send it around every year though.
Average salary in Ireland for FT workers is around €45k according to the CSO
Median earnings (middle point where half of earners are above / below) are a lot lower at around €33k Incorrect
A lot of the people posting about their huge salaries and benefits online are probably exaggerating, albeit there is no doubt we do have a lot of higher earners in Ireland.
Nett Pay is a figure that can be very much skewed by tax credits, SRCOP and pension deductions etc. I agree it's quite representative all the same. It also shows that those on circa €40K-€45K aren't been taxed out of existence on the PAYE/PRSI/USC front. Not a huge salary for someone with a mortgage and a few kids but those are the decisions we are free to make...
You do know that there are readily available sources of such information, so that you don't have to rely on guesswork?
Thanks.
So 33k would put you at the mid point of full time earners nationally OP.
Half of them earn more than 33k, half of them earn less than 33k.
Interestingly, if you are unemployed and the state are paying for your apartment in Dublin, you would be in the upper half of earners, when the value of all benefits is considered.
11.5k dole money plus 2k a month rent coverage = 35.5k benefits.
Thats not including medical card, travel allowance or other benefits.
You would hardly get all your rent covered ?
You would if you are unemployed. You have no money to pay it.
Here is the CSO data:
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