Gross monthly earnings vary considerably across the EU. In 2018, the median monthly earnings varied from EUR 4 057 per month in Denmark to EUR 442 in Bulgaria.
The median is defined as a ‘middle value’: half of the employees earn less and the other half earn more than the median value of earnings, reads the recent data of EUROSTAT.
Joining Denmark at the top of the list was Luxembourg with median earnings of EUR 3 671 per month, followed by Sweden (EUR 3 135), Belgium (EUR 3 092), Ireland (EUR 3 021), Finland (EUR 2 958) and Germany (EUR 2 891).
At the other end of the scale, Bulgaria stood out with its median monthly earnings of EUR 442. The countries coming closest were Romania with EUR 700 per month, Hungary with EUR 801 and Lithuania with EUR 809.
