Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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152. To ask the Taoiseach the average wage and the median wage in Ireland in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [51118/22]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The exact information the Deputy requested is not available.

Statistics on average wages are compiled from the quarterly Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) and from the Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS).

The EHECS collects aggregate quarterly data from enterprises with three or more employees in the NACE Rev 2 Industrial Sectors B–S inclusive. Annual estimates are also derived from the quarterly data. The EHECS is the official source of short-term earnings and labour costs estimates in the State. The quarterly EHECS earnings and labour estimates are published in the Earnings and Labour Costs release (ELC). The most recent final figures available are for Q1 2022. For further information please see the Background Notes available on the CSO website.

The EAADS is the official source of structural earnings statistics and is based primarily on the Revenue Commissioner’s employee tax data which provides details of gross annual earnings and number of weeks worked in the year for all employments. The most recent estimates available are for the year 2020. For further information please see the Background Notes available on the CSO website.

The data presented in Table 1 and Table 2 below is mean earnings as it is not possible to calculate median earnings from the EHECS as data is collected at enterprise level and not at employee level. Estimates in relation to mean and median weekly earnings below (Table 3) are taken from the EAADS. Data in relation to hourly earnings is not available from the EAADS.

Table 1 below shows the Mean Hourly Earnings & Mean Annual Earnings for the period 2011-2021 inclusive.

Table 2 below shows the Mean Hourly Earnings for the period Q1-Q2 2022* (Preliminary Estimate).

Table 3 below shows the Median Weekly Earnings & Mean Weekly Earnings for the period 2011-2020 inclusive.