Average monthly pay up 4% in Sept 2025 as payroll rises 6.8%

Semi‑final data reported to the CASS show the average monthly salary in September 2025 was €2,615.45, up 4.0% year‑on‑year, while total payroll for the month reached €116.05 million, a 6.8% increase from September 2024.

The total number of salaried workers stood at 44,372, a rise of 2.7% from 43,205 a year earlier. Employment grew most strongly in the production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (+10.5%) and in education (+8.4%). Construction and real estate and business services also posted notable employment gains (+6.1% and +8.1% respectively), while retail trade excluding motor vehicles recorded the largest fall in salaried employment (‑4.4%).

By sector, real estate and business services recorded the largest increases in both total payroll (+17.1%) and average pay (+8.3%). The financial sector was the only one to see payroll decline (‑9%) and registered the steepest drop in average pay (‑10.4%).

Distributional figures show the median salary was €2,139.28, up 3.8% year‑on‑year, and the most frequent monthly pay interval remained €1,700–€1,800. Cumulative figures for the first nine months of 2025 show an average of 45,896 salaried workers, 2.7% higher than the same period in 2024.

Among occupations with larger market representation, athletes and similar professionals posted the largest year‑on‑year increase in average pay (+19.3%). No occupation registered a negative interannual variation in average pay.

Labour‑market movement data for November 2025 show 224 people registered as actively seeking work at month‑end, down 5.1% from October and 18.8% from November 2024. Job offers rose to 1,909, up 5.4% month‑on‑month and 1.8% year‑on‑year; offers were concentrated in artisans and skilled industry/construction workers (34.5% of offers), services/restaurant/sales (24.9%) and unskilled workers (21.4%).

The employment service recorded 12 direct hires and nine placements via temporary work programmes during November; a further 68 jobseekers found work by their own means. The number registered as seeking career improvement was 215 (a monthly rise of 0.9% but 5.3% below November 2024). Demanders of services numbered 76, of whom one was on medical leave longer than six months. Beneficiaries of the government’s economic aid for involuntary unemployment fell to nine people, 10% fewer than in October and 35.7% fewer than a year earlier.