{"id":150678,"date":"2025-09-03T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=150678"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:18:42","slug":"wages-increased-but-expenses-grew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wages-increased-but-expenses-grew\/","title":{"rendered":"Wages Increased, But Expenses Grew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Statistics Estonia, the average gross salary of Estonians and those working in Estonia has already risen above \u20ac2000. However, the take-home portion appears significantly smaller: after taxes and contributions, employees receive an average of around \u20ac1500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">When the rising prices of consumer goods and food are added to this\u2014along with the 24% value-added tax\u2014many wage-earners feel little difference in their everyday life compared to previous years. On the contrary, for many, their income now stretches less than before when it comes to maintaining a good standard of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Statistics Estonia, in the second quarter of 2025, the average monthly gross salary was \u20ac2126, which is a 5.9% increase compared to the second quarter of 2024. During this period, the highest average gross salaries were recorded in Tallinn at \u20ac2479, Tartu at \u20ac2175, and Harju County at \u20ac2365.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">By sector, the highest average gross salary in the second quarter was in the information and communication sector\u2014\u20ac3704\u2014followed by finance and insurance at \u20ac3389, and electricity, gas, steam, and air-conditioning supply at \u20ac3164. The lowest average salary was recorded in the accommodation and food service sector at \u20ac1328.<br><br>Read <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stat.ee\/en\/news\/revised-data-average-wages-and-salaries-were-eu2126-second-quarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span> for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to Statistics Estonia, the average gross salary of Estonians and those working in Estonia has already risen above &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":150561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13432,14064,16148,20198,20199,22252],"class_list":["post-150678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-wages-in-estonia","tag-statistics-estonia","tag-economy","tag-average-salary-in-estonia","tag-salaries","tag-statistics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150679,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150678\/revisions\/150679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}