Wages and salaries in the European Union rose by 3.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2026, following a 3.4% increase in the previous period. Wage Growth in European Union averaged 2.78 percent from 2010 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 6.00 percent in the first quarter of 2024 and a record low of 0.00 percent in the second quarter of 2021. source: EUROSTAT
Wage Growth in European Union is expected to be 3.20 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the European Union Wage Growth is projected to trend around 2.50 percent in 2027 and 2.30 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.