Lowest Wage Increase in Government Sector
In 2025, the wage increase in the government sector (3.9 percent) lagged behind that of subsidized institutions (4.8 percent) and private companies (5.3 percent). A year earlier, wages in the government sector also rose less sharply than in other sectors.
Smallest Wage Increase in Real Estate
At the industry level, wages rose the least in 2025 in real estate (housing corporations) by 3.2 percent, followed by the public administration sector. In 2024, wages in the real estate sector increased the most, by 12.4 percent.
The highest wage increase was in the information and communication sector with 7.4 percent.
Real Wage Increase 1.6 Percent
The real collective agreement wage development, where the wage is adjusted for inflation, was about 1.6 percent in the fourth quarter. An exact figure is not yet available because the inflation figure for this quarter will only be known in January. The calculation is therefore based on price developments in October and November.
For 2025, the inflation-adjusted wage development also comes to 1.6 percent, based on price developments up to and including November. This is lower than in 2024 (3.3 percent) but higher than in 2023, when it was negative at -1.6 percent.
Between 2020 and 2025, wages (25.1 percent) and consumer prices (25.0 percent) rose at almost the same rate.
The provisional figures for 2025 are based on 98 percent of the collective agreements on which the statistics are based. Three quarters of employees are covered by a collective agreement.
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