Average monthly salary before taxes at 1 815 euro in 2025

Central Statistical Bureau data¹ show that in 2025 the average monthly gross wages and salaries stood at 1 815 euro (in full-time units). Compared to 2024, the average monthly earnings before taxes increased by 129 euro or 7.7 % and hourly earnings went up to 12.27 euro or by 7.9 %.

In Q4 2025, the average gross monthly earnings grew by 27 euro or 1.5 % compared with Q3 2025, and hourly earnings rose by 4.9 %. 

Average monthly net earnings reached 1 346 euro

The average wages and salaries after taxes amounted to 1 346 euro in 2025 (representing 74.1 % of the gross earnings) and compared to 2024 grew by 10.2 %, thus overtaking the climb in both consumer prices and gross earnings. The real increase in the net earnings, considering the price rise, was 6.3 %.

Median monthly earnings at 1 462 euro

In 2025, the gross median² wages and salaries amounted to 1 462 euro (in full-time units). Compared to 2024, they increased by 105 euro, representing a rise of 7.7 %. The net median earnings (after taxes) stood at 1 117 euro and grew by 12.2 %.

Sharper year-on-year upturn in private sector 

Private sector saw higher year-on-year rise in the average earnings than the public sector (8.1 % and 7.0 % respectively). The average monthly earnings before taxes in the private sector stood at 1 800 euro, while in the public sector they were 63 euro higher, at 1 863 euro.      

Apart from the rise or decline in the remuneration of employees, average earnings are also influenced by the labour force demand and supply trends as well as labour market structural changes. Generally, the mentioned factors cause changes in the wage and salary fund and in the number of full-time workers both of which are also used to calculate average earnings.

Compared to 2024, the estimated national wage and salary fund grew by 6.4 %, or by 956 million euro, while the number of salaried workers reduced by 8.4 thousand people or 1.1 % (in full-time units).

In terms of economic activities, the sharpest rise in the average earnings – of 18.9 % compared to 2024 – was registered in other service activities (which include activities of religious, political, etc. membership organisations, repair of computers and personal and household goods, washing and (dry-)cleaning of textile and fur products, hairdressing and other beauty treatment, funeral and related activities, etc. personal service activities). Real estate activities follow with 14.3 %, administrative and support service activities with 9.7 %, and professional, scientific and technical activities with 9.2 %.

Highest-paying economic activities: financial activities, information and communication 

Last year, the average gross monthly earnings above the national average (in full-time units) were recorded in several economic activities. Highest-paying economic activities were financial and insurance activities (with the average gross monthly earnings at 3 077 euro), information and communication (2 861 euro), professional, scientific and technical activities (2 319 euro), energy sector (2 313 euro), public administration (2 103 euro), mining and quarrying (2 009 euro), human health and social work activities (1 841 euro), as well as water supply, sewerage, waste management, and remediation activities (1 839 euro).

The lowest gross earnings were registered in accommodation and food service activities (1 190 euro).

The highest average earnings recorded in Riga and Riga region

Compared with 2024, the fastest growth in the average gross monthly earnings was recorded in Vidzeme (11.2 %), Riga and the Riga region (7.6 %), and Latgale (7.4 %). 

The highest average gross earnings (in full-time units) were recorded in Riga and Pierīga regions (1 990 euro), while the lowest in Latgale (1 302 euro). Riga and Latgale had the greatest earnings gap – 34.6 %.

Hourly earnings reached 12.27 euro

The gross hourly earnings amounted to 12.27 euro in 2025, representing a rise of 7.9 % compared with 2024 (up from 11.38 euro). 

Driven by a 6.4 % increase in the total labour costs and a 1.3 % reduction in the hours worked, hourly labour costs (which include wages and salaries as well as other labour-related expenses of the employer) grew from 14.33 euro in 2024 to 15.45 euro in 2025 (by 7.9 %). 

Additional statistics for wages and salaries as well as hourly labour costs in Latvia are available in the official statistics portal sections Wages and salaries and Labour costs.

Methodological information

¹ Average earnings are calculated from working-day and seasonally unadjusted data, which are converted into full-time units.

² Median is the value that separates the higher half from the lower half of a dataset arranged in ascending or descending order. It represents the middle point, dividing the indicators into two equal parts. Median earnings are usually lower than the arithmetic mean (average wages and salaries). The difference between the median and the mean indicated the degree of asymmetry in the earnings distribution. If the distribution is completely symmetrical, the median and the mean are equal.

The earnings statistics is produced based on the results of a sample survey conducted among private companies, sole proprietors, central and local government bodies, foundations, associations and funds, as well as administrative data

In the Central Statistical Bureau earnings statistics, public sector includes central and local government bodies, companies and other entities in which central or local government holds 50% or more of the capital or exercises control, and excludes foundations, associations, and funds, and the companies they own or control. 

The breakdown of the earnings statistics by territorial unit is based on the address of the company’s registered office. 

Median is calculated based on the information available in statistical surveys and administrative data of the State Revenue Service.

Average monthly and hourly earnings and change in hourly labour costs are calculated from not rounded figures. 

In compliance with the EU Regulations, when compiling data on labour costs, gross earnings include also wage or salary in kind (goods and services provided by the employer to employees free of charge or at a lower price, living quarters, mobile telephone, transport compensation, etc.) and exclude payment for the days not worked due to illness but nevertheless paid by the employer. Other labour costs include employer's social contributions (payments made by employers for the benefit of their employees to insurers, which cover statutory, conventional, contractual and voluntary contributions in respect of insurance against social risks or needs), gifts, sick pay (sick-leave certificate A), severance pay, State entrepreneurial risk fee.

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Lija Luste
Business Statistics Methodology Section
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