Pay, pensions and benefits

In the 2nd quarter of 2026, employees earned on average 1 835 euros a month (provisional data), before deductions and including holiday and Christmas pay, in the jobs declared to Social Security and to the civil-service pension fund; each person counts as many times as the jobs they hold.

How much do employees receive per month, on average and before deductions?

It is what a full-time employee earned per month, on average, in 2024, including what is paid on a regular basis for normal and overtime hours, before deductions.

How much do full-time employees on full pay earn per month, on average and before deductions (average monthly earnings)?

It is the national minimum wage: the lowest monthly pay the law guarantees to employees, in force on the mainland in 2026.

What is the lowest monthly pay the law guarantees to employees on the mainland, without the increase that Azores law adds to it (the guaranteed minimum monthly wage)?

Per hour worked, women earned on average less than men, in 2024, in enterprises with 10 or more employees: the gap, as a percentage of men’s earnings, was 7 % (provisional data).

How much less do women earn than men per hour of work, before deductions, as a percentage of men’s earnings, in enterprises with 10 or more employees (the unadjusted gender pay gap)?

In 2025 the amount of pensions paid by Social Security was, on average, 8 066 euros per pensioner over the whole year, across old-age, invalidity and survivors’ pensions.

What is the average annual amount of pensions paid by Social Security per pensioner?

In 2024 there were 24,22 people receiving social insertion income for every thousand people of working age, from 15 to 64 years old: it is Social Security’s support for people living in extreme poverty, with a programme of integration into work and the community.

How many people receive social insertion income for every thousand people of working age?

In the survey for 2025, a person living alone was at risk of poverty if, in the previous year, they had had less than 8 679 euros, after taxes and social contributions and including social benefits. That is the line Eurostat draws at 60 % of the country’s median income, adjusted for each household’s size and composition. Median means the one in the middle: half the population has more and half has less.

Below what annual income is a person living alone at risk of poverty?