{"id":667600,"date":"2026-05-27T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667600\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:24:27","slug":"average-earnings-up-to-e1074-a-week-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667600\/","title":{"rendered":"Average earnings up to \u20ac1,074 a week in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Average weekly earnings were \u20ac1,074 in the first three months of this year &#8211; up 4.4% compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.<\/p>\n<p>Average hourly earnings rose by 4.0% to \u20ac33.13 in the same period compared to \u20ac31.86 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8221;, said Dr Niall O&#8217;Sullivan, CSO&#8217;s statistician in the earnings analysis division.<\/p>\n<p>Average weekly earnings rose across 11 of the 13 economic sectors over a year, with the administrative and education sectors leading in annual increases &#8211; 7.7% and 6.7% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Average hourly total labour costs increased by 4.1% to \u20ac38.92 in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The number of job vacancies declined slightly year-on-year and stood at 1.1% by the end March &#8211; a decline of 0.2%.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; up 4.4% compared to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-667600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}