Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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242. To ask the Taoiseach the average wage and the median wage in Ireland in each year from 2015 to date in 2025. [24464/25]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The exact information the Deputy requested is not available.

There are two sources of data used to compile statistics on the average and median wages in Ireland. The official statistics on average wages are compiled from the quarterly CSO Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) while both average and median wages are compiled from administrative tax data sources.

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 Q3 2024. For further information please see the Background Notes available on the CSO website.

The Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (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 in the NACE Rev 2 Industrial Sectors B–S. The most recent estimates available are for the year 2023. 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 in Table 3 below are taken from EAADS. The annual earnings data presented from the EAADS is based on employments that were active for at least 50 weeks in the reference year. Data in relation to hourly earnings is not available from the EAADS.

Table 1 below shows the Mean Hourly Earnings and Mean Annual Earnings for the period 2015 to 2023 inclusive.

Table 2 below shows the Mean Hourly Earnings for the period Q1-Q4 2024*(Preliminary Estimate).

Table 3 below shows the Median Weekly Earnings, Mean Weekly Earnings, Median Annual Earnings & Mean Annual Earnings for the period 2015-2023 inclusive.