In France, in 2021, the average net monthly income of people living in the Île-de-France region was around 3,218 euros. In comparison, men living in this same region earned almost 3,400 euros per month, while women received around 2,970 euros. Overall, French people living in the region around Paris were the richest, meanwhile the population living on La Réunion island was the poorest, with an average net monthly income of 2,123 euros.

Since 2000, the average annual wages in France have been increasing. In 2000, the average annual wages in France amounted to 25,606 euros. Since then the average wage in France has been increasing, despite a slight decrease between 2019 and 2020. While the average annual wages were 32,409 euros in 2008, they reached 43,592 euros in 2023.

In France, in 2021, public servants, earned an average monthly net salary of 2,500 euros. However, public servants are divided into three categories depending on their responsibilities and qualifications, public servants of the A category, the most prestigious one, received an average salary of 3,090 euros per month. In comparison, public servants from the C category only earned 1,950 euros.

In 2021 in France, the average net monthly full-time equivalent salary was 2,524 euros. That year, 10 percent of the poorest French employees earned less than 1,366 euros per month. On the other hand, 10 percent of the richest French employees received more than 4,010 euros. The French people who were part of the richest one percent of the working population earned a salary over 9,602 euros per month.

This statistic highlights the average net monthly salary of French employees in the private sector in 2022, by socio-professional category and by gender. In 2022, a male manager earned on average 4,770 euros per month, while a female executive earned on average around 4,020 euros per month.

Over this 23-year period, annual wages in Spain fluctuated greatly, ranging from a low of 28,685 euros in 2006 to a high of approximately 31,910 euros in 2009. The average annual wage stood at approximately 30,655 euros in 2023. Compared to other European countries, Spain ranked fairly low in 2022. The annual salary in the Iberian country was similar to salaries in Italy and Slovenia, but remained far from the figures that were registered in France, Ireland and Germany. Minimum wage Spain's minimum monthly wage was 1,134 euros as of 2024. Unlike the average annual wage, it has been constantly increasing on a nearly continuous basis since 2008, when the minimum wage was 600 euros per month. In 2019, the Socialist government of Spain passed a law by that increased the national minimum wage by 164 euros, therefore making it stand at 900 euros per month and reflecting the largest increase to date. Along with the monthly wage, the national minimum daily wage has also been raised consistently over the past years. In 2024, the gross minimum was 37.8 euros a day, whereas in 2000 it was 20 euros a day. Unequal pay The average salary in Spain diverges considerably according to different factors. For instance, the gender salary gap remains significant in the Mediterranean country, although it has shrunk in recent years. In 2021, the average salary for a male full-time employee was around nine percent higher than his female counterpart. The gender gap is even wider for permanent positions: that year, average annual salaries for women were roughly 6,000 euros less than average salaries for men. The salary gap is also conspicuous when looking at the wage for workers with disabilities, a gap that has increased in recent years. Geographic location is also important; the average net salary in regions such as Extremadura and the Canary Islands was less than 23,100 euros per year in 2022, far from the salary in the Basque Country and Madrid (32,300 and 31,200 euros, respectively).

In France in 2021, managers of large companies with 500 or more employees earned the highest salary compared to any other socio-professional category in the private sector, indeed that year, they received the average net monthly salary of 15,074 euros. The second highest paid occupation in the private sector was administrative, financial and sales executives in large companies, their average salary was around 10,093 euros.

Since 2005, the gross minimum wage per hour in France has been gradually increasing. In July 2005, the gross minimum wage per hour in France amounted to 8.03 euros. Nineteen years later the hourly minimum wage increased by more than three euros, reaching 11.88 euros in November 2024. In 2023, France had an average annual wage higher than countries like Spain and Italy, but lower than those in Germany or Belgium. Minimum wage is increasing For years now, wages in France have been increasing progressively. In 2013 the gross minimum wage per month in France was 1,430.22 euros, compared to 1766.92 euros in 2024. Thus, the average annual wage in France has risen since the beginning of the 2000s despite the 2008 financial crisis. The issue of purchasing power In recent years purchasing power has become one of the most worrying issues of households in France. In 2024, a large part of the French perceived their purchasing power as decreasing, while six years before it had become one of the main causes of the Yellow Vests protests in the country. Studies have shown that the purchasing power in the country reached its lowest level between 2010 and 2014. Household expenditure doubled since 1990, while 52.4 percent of French middle-income households stated having difficulties making ends meet in 2017.

Paris Saint-Germain was the club with the highest average salary for its players during the 2019-2020 Ligue 1 season. The average monthly salary of the capital club was 820,000 euros. The players at the Stade de Reims were the lowest paid in the league with an average of 24,107 euros.

This statistic depicts French politicians' monthly gross salary in 2024, in euros. In 2024, both the President of France and the Prime Minister earned more than 15,000 euros gross every month while deputies and senators earned more than 7,000 euros gross each month in 2024.

Salaries for professional sportswomen in volleyball, handball, soccer or basketball leagues varied slightly in 2019. During that year, the basketball league paid its athletes the most with an average monthly salary of 3,700 euros. The average salary observed among the clubs in the first soccer division was 3,500 euros. Women's rugby was not included in this study. Among the masculine colleagues of female soccer players, the club with the lowest average salary was the Stade de Reims with more than 20,000 euros per month.

In 2019, the average disposable income in France reached over 38,400 euros. According to the source, the average annual disposable income in France picked in 2011, at 38,790 euros. In 2020, the total gross disposable income of French households reached about 1,495 billion euros, compared to 1,291.9 billion euros in 2011.

French households’ disposable income

The disposable income of a household includes income from work (net of social contributions), income from wealth, transfers from other households and social benefits (including pensions and unemployment benefits), net of direct taxes. Thus, the average annual household disposable income in France has been oscillating between 33,640 and 38,790 euros. From 2016 to 2020, the change in the gross disposable income of French households has always been positive. France was one of the European countries with the highest household disposable income in 2019.

Households spending in France

In 2021, the household consumption spending as a share of GDP in France reached 52.67 percent. French households spent over 145 billion euros for food in 2016. Two years later, in 2018, in a survey conducted by BVA, most of responding French declared that they spent between 50 and 149 euros on food per week. Regarding other expense areas, recreational and cultural services households’ expenditure represented more than 32 billion euros. However, a lot of middle-income households in France stated having difficulties to make ends meet in 2017.

Between 2017 and 2021, the average net salary of teachers working in private primary and secondary schools increased slightly in France. Indeed, in 2021, private elementary school teachers earned an average of 115 euros more per month than four years earlier, while private secondary school teachers earned 180 more. In 2022, there were nearly 44,000 private elementary school teachers in France and more than 96,150 private secondary school teachers.

The average gross monthly salary of a person employed in the construction industry in France amounted to 3,065 euros in 2022. However, there were significant differences between the salary of a manual worker and that of executives and higher intellectual professions, such as an architect or an engineer might be.

During the 2022/23 Ligue 1 season, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) was the football club with the highest average annual player salary. PSG players earned an average annual salary of over 11 million euros. The average salary of the next club was just over 15 percent of this, namely Marseille with 1.78 million euros.

The wage gap in French football

The numbers provided in this ranking indicate that Monaco and Olympique de Marseille (OM), two of the biggest clubs in the French league, do not offer their players even half of PSG’s average annual salary. The gap between PSG and the other French clubs is even more stark when looking at the average salary of some of the lowest ranked teams, such as Ajaccio.

PSG, one of the richest clubs in Europe

For the 2020/21 Ligue 1 season, the ten highest-paid football players in the championship were all PSG players. Since the State of Qatar took over the club in 2011, PSG became the richest club in France and one of the wealthiest in Europe.

In the 2023/24 season, Bayern Munich had the highest average annual player salary in the Bundesliga, at approximately 10.66 million euros. This was significantly higher than other clubs in the league, including Borussia Dortmund at 4.37 million euros. Meanwhile, Heidenheim paid the least on average, with a typical annual salary of 0.38 million euros.

Which club has won the most Bundesliga titles?

Bayern Munich is undoubtedly the most successful club in German soccer, having won more league titles than any other club. They have also won the UEFA Champions League six times. Bayern’s sporting success is backed up by its financial strength, with the club being the most valuable German club and the fifth most valuable in Europe overall. However, things have not always been easy for the Bavarian giants: their dominance over the league has been strongly criticized, and their own members have spoken out against the club’s sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways. Nevertheless, Bayern’s position at the very top of German soccer seems unlikely to change any time soon.

How much do players in the Big Five football leagues earn?

Bayern Munich was not the only club to offer millions to its best performers in the 2023/24 season, with other Big Five clubs spending big to attract the best talent. In the Premier League, Manchester United were the top spenders, with an average annual salary of 7.19 million British pounds. Meanwhile, the Big Five club that paid the highest average annual salary was Ligue 1’s Paris Saint-Germain, at 11.72 million euros.

In 2023, the most expensive residential rental market in Europe was London (inner) with rental costs of approximately 33.8 euros per square meter. Dublin and Paris followed with rental costs of 31.5 and 31.3 euros per square meter. Rents increased across most markets - a trend that could also be observed in the housing market. How much does an apartment cost in different European cities? Renting a furnished studio apartment in some of the leading cities in Europe can cost anywhere between 500 euros monthly (Budapest) and 2,000 euros (Amsterdam) per month. For afurnished one-bedroom apartment in Paris, France, one may be expected to pay on average 1,900 euros monthly. Which countries have the most affordable housing? The house price to rent ratio is an indicator of the affordability of owning housing over renting across European countries and is calculated as the nominal house prices divided by a rent price index. The higher the ratio, the more the gap between house prices and rental rates has widened since 2015 when the index base was 100. As of the fourth quarter of 2021, Finland, Italy, and Belgium had the lowest house price to rent ratio, meaning that buying a house was most affordable there compared to renting.

In France, as of 2020, a lawyer working in the field of banking and financial law could expect to receive about 85,000 euros on an annual basis after eight years of work. Furthermore, lawyers specialized in public law could expect about 32,500 euros in terms of annual salary during their first three years of work.

This statistic displays the monthly average revenue of cafes, hotels and restaurants in France between March and September 2018, by activity. In September 2018, the monthly average revenue of cafes in France was 16 thousand euros.

According to a survey from December 2023 among influencers in France, 19 percent of respondents were making between 1,000 and 5,000 euros gross annually from their brand partnerships and content creation. Another 26 percent stated they made no money at all. Six percent of content creators on social media were earning more than 50,000 euros annually with the same job.