Average weekly earnings were \u20ac1,074 in the first three months of this year – up 4.4% compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.<\/p>\n
Average hourly earnings rose by 4.0% to \u20ac33.13 in the same period compared to \u20ac31.86 in 2025.<\/p>\n
“Average earnings in the economy continue to increase year-on-year, driven by a number of factors, including a stable job vacancy rate since 2024”, said Dr Niall O’Sullivan, CSO’s statistician in the earnings analysis division.<\/p>\n
Average weekly earnings rose across 11 of the 13 economic sectors over a year, with the administrative and education sectors leading in annual increases – 7.7% and 6.7% respectively.<\/p>\n
Average hourly total labour costs increased by 4.1% to \u20ac38.92 in the same period.<\/p>\n
The sector with the highest average hourly total labour costs in was information and communication at \u20ac62.65, while the hospitality sector paid the lowest at \u20ac20.39 per hour.<\/p>\n
The number of job vacancies declined slightly year-on-year and stood at 1.1% by the end March – a decline of 0.2%.<\/p>\n
The public administration and defence sector had the highest job vacancy rate at 3.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Average weekly earnings were \u20ac1,074 in the first three months of this year – up 4.4% compared to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-467743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}