Average Salary Hits €2,615 in Sept 2025, Up 4% YoY
Salaries and payroll rose amid employment growth in key sectors, while unemployment claims dropped sharply in November 2025.
Key Points
- Average salary €2,615.45 (+4.0% YoY); payroll €116.05M (+6.8%); workers 44,372 (+2.7%)
- Strongest payroll growth: real estate/services +17.1%; employment gains in utilities (+10.5%), education (+8.4%)
- Median salary €2,139 (+3.8%); athletes' pay +19.3%; no occupation declined
- Nov jobseekers 224 (-18.8% YoY); offers 1,909 (+1.8%); unemployment benefits down 35.7%
Preliminary data from the Statistics Department show the average monthly salary in September 2025 reached €2,615.45, a 4.0% rise from the previous year, while total payroll hit €116.05 million, up 6.8% year-on-year.
The number of salaried workers totalled 44,372, marking a 2.7% increase from 43,205 in September 2024. Strongest employment growth occurred in electricity, gas and water production and distribution (+10.5%) and education (+8.4%). Construction (+6.1%) and real estate and business services (+8.1%) also saw solid gains, though retail trade excluding motor vehicles dropped 4.4%.
Real estate and business services led payroll growth at +17.1%, with average pay up 8.3% in the sector. The financial sector bucked the trend, posting a 9% payroll decline and the sharpest average pay fall at -10.4%.
The median salary stood at €2,139.28, a 3.8% year-on-year gain and 81.8% of the average. The most common pay bracket remained €1,700–€1,800. For the first nine months of 2025, average salaried employment was 45,896, up 2.7% from 2024.
Among major occupations, athletes and similar professionals saw the biggest average pay jump at +19.3%. No occupation recorded a year-on-year decline.
November 2025 labour market data from the Employment Service showed 224 people actively seeking work at month-end, down 5.1% from October and 18.8% from November 2024. Job offers climbed to 1,909, a 5.4% monthly increase and 1.8% yearly rise. These focused on artisans and skilled industry/construction workers (34.5%), services, restaurants and sales (24.9%), and unskilled labour (21.4%).
The service facilitated 12 direct hires and nine via temporary work schemes. An additional 68 jobseekers secured positions independently, slightly up from the prior month. Those seeking career upgrades numbered 215, up 0.9% monthly but 5.3% below November 2024. Service users totalled 76, including one on medical leave over six months. Unemployment benefit recipients fell to nine, down 10% from October and 35.7% from a year earlier.
Original Sources
This article was aggregated from the following Catalan-language sources:
- Diari d'Andorra•
El nombre d’aturats baixa a 224 inscrits
- El Periòdic•
El Servei d’Ocupació registra menys persones en recerca de feina i un augment del 5,4% d’ofertes laborals
- Bon Dia•
Les ofertes laborals del Servei d'Ocupació creixen un 5,4%
- Bon Dia•
La massa salarial supera els 116 milions d’euros i creix un 6,8%
- Diari d'Andorra•
El nombre d'aturats baixa a 224 inscrits al novembre
- Altaveu•
El salari mitjà del setembre se situa en 2.615,45 euros, un 4% més respecte a l'any anterior