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Gross annual salary and earnings per hour. By sex and type of employment

Gross annual salary and earnings per hour. By sex and type of employment 2023
Men Women Catalonia Spain
Gross annual salary 32,721.58 27,240.93 29,978.69 28,049.94
Legislators, senior officials and managers 66,933.19 57,085.84 62,565.99 60,985.96
Professionals 45,891.07 39,074.95 41,689.46 40,883.56
Technicians and associate professionals 38,575.03 31,033.94 35,139.15 33,242.65
Clerks 29,173.54 25,026.85 26,261.83 24,864.75
Service workers and shop and market sales workers 26,258.50 18,381.31 21,450.44 20,025.20
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 24,550.71
Craft and related trades workers 28,528.33 22,445.06 27,702.96 25,330.65
Plant and machine operators and assemblers 27,910.24 23,814.17 27,301.10 25,508.11
Elementary occupations 21,912.87 14,937.40 18,716.80 17,729.98
Earnings per hour 19.89 18.05 19.01 17.82
Legislators, senior officials and managers 39.34 33.85 36.92 36.04
Professionals 29.12 26.12 27.31 26.61
Technicians and associate professionals 23.41 19.91 21.86 20.42
Clerks 17.81 15.71 16.35 15.57
Service workers and shop and market sales workers 16.30 12.44 14.03 13.31
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 14.59
Craft and related trades workers 16.65 14.09 16.32 14.85
Plant and machine operators and assemblers 16.69 14.44 16.36 15.22
Elementary occupations 13.32 11.15 12.43 11.97
Units: Euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Annual Wage Structure Survey.
Notes:
(1) Data not highly significant for calculation (associated sample between 100 and 500 units).
(-) Insignificant figures (associated sample between 100 and 500 units).
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: July 2, 2025.

Methodological note

The Annual Wage Structure Survey (EAES) in an operation performed annually by the National Statistical Institute (INE) and is the result of the combination of different statistical and administrative sources, the purpose of which is to obtain comparable results regarding the structure and distribution of wages in the years that the Wage Structure Survey (EES) (every four years) is not conducted. Therefore, the results issued for 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 come from the Wage Structure Survey, while the results of the rest of the years come from the Annual Wage Structure Survey.

The main objective of both operations is to determine the gross annual earnings per worker, classified by different sociodemographic variables as sex, age and nationality, as well as other variables related to occupational characteristics as type of working day, contract, the activity sector and the type of occupation carried out by workers.

The population scope of the EAES constitutes all workers who are employed by others and provide services to their respective enterprises, regardless of the number of workers in each unit. Excluded are company presidents, members of the board and in general any personnel who are not paid in some form of regular salary but by commissions or profits. The population scope of the Wage Structure Survey coincides with the Annual Wage Structure Survey from 2006.

As far as what sectors are concerned, they may be from industry, construction and services. Until 2007 activities related to public administration, defence and compulsory social security, domestic personnel and extraterritorial organisation and bodies were excluded. Therefore, it includes those centres with economic activities comprised from C to K and M to O in the Catalan Classification of Economic Activities, CCAE-93 Rev1. From 2008 onwards, the new Catalan Classification of Economic Activities 2009 was implemented, which included workers belonging to the General Social Security Plan under in section O: public administration, defence and compulsory social security. For this reason, the 2008 results are not comparable with previous years.

The EAES is a statistical operation that is obtained through the combined processing of the Social Security General Affiliation File and Form 190 statements: the annual summary of withholdings and advance payments on personal income taxes by the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT), along with such variable as occupation and workday, which are provided by the survey attached to the Quarterly Labour Cost Survey.

All wage concepts are collected in gross values, in other words, before any withholdings were made, such as income taxes or Social Security contributions.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.