Average annual wages
- World median
- intl $61.4k
- across 34 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- —
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- intl $24.5k – intl $44.8k
- intl $44.8k – intl $58.6k
- intl $58.6k – intl $65.7k
- intl $65.7k – intl $78.2k
- intl $78.2k – intl $101k
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Top 5
- intl $101k
- intl $98.5k
- intl $92.3k
- intl $87k
- intl $80.1k
Source: OECD — OECD.ELS.SAE,DSD_EARNINGS@AV_AN_WAGE · *.WG.USD_PPP.A.Q.MEAN._Z
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Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- US$ PPP, constant prices (US$ PPP)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Higher is better
- Valid range
- 0 – 500000
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source38 countries · 1,298 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
OECD — Average annual wages
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
184 of 218 countries have no value for 2025.
- India
- China
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Egypt
- Philippines
- DR Congo
- Vietnam
- Iran
- Türkiye
- Thailand
- Tanzania
- South Africa
- Kenya
- Myanmar
- Colombia
- Sudan
- Uganda
- Algeria
- 160 more
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=average-annual-wages" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'