Wages in Cyprus
How much do people in Cyprus earn? In 2025, average gross monthly earnings across all employees, full- and part-time, were €2,605 before tax. That is a different, Cyprus-only measure from the EU-comparable median pay figures below.
A mean, before tax, across all employees including part-time. It is not a median, and an EU comparison for this measure isn’t available on this site yet. The quarterly reading is the same measure, more up to date than the annual figure.
What has changed
Mean gross monthly earnings over time, 2010-2025
CYSTAT's annual mean, all employees, before tax. A single concept plotted alone – never on the same axis as the median SES figure or the net-earnings-by-household series below.
The statutory minimum wage
Cyprus introduced its first statutory minimum wage in 2023(first published half-year: 2023-S1). An EU comparison for this measure isn’t available on this site yet, even though most other EU states have their own minimum wage too.
Latest half-year (2026-S2): €1,088 a month, or 1,220 PPS (purchasing power standard – adjusts for how much things actually cost in Cyprus).
| Half-year | EUR | PPS |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-S1 | 940 | 1,021 |
| 2023-S2 | 940 | 1,021 |
| 2024-S1 | 1,000 | 1,091 |
| 2024-S2 | 1,000 | 1,091 |
| 2025-S1 | 1,000 | 1,121 |
| 2025-S2 | 1,000 | 1,121 |
| 2026-S1 | 1,088 | 1,220 |
| 2026-S2 | 1,088 | 1,220 |
No figure before 2023
Median hourly pay, by sex, and against the EU
Median gross hourly earnings, enterprises with 10 or more employees, from Eurostat’s Structure of Earnings Survey – a survey run every four years, not annually, and a median, never the same figure as CYSTAT’s mean above.
| Sex | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 8.81 | 9.19 | 8.35 | 8.39 | 9.30 |
| Men | 10.33 | 10.32 | 8.99 | 8.92 | 9.77 |
| Women | 7.09 | 7.90 | 7.70 | 7.80 | 8.62 |
How Cyprus compares with the rest of the EU, 2022
Ranked in euros, not purchasing power standard (PPS) – so this ranking reflects each country’s price level as well as its pay: a euro buys more in a lower-priced country, so a country can rank lower here in euros than it would in PPS. Eurostat also publishes this measure in PPS, which is not shown here.
| Rank | Country | EUR/hour |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 29.83 |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 23.99 |
| 3 | Belgium | 23.84 |
| 4 | Ireland | 20.25 |
| 5 | Germany | 19.39 |
| 6 | Finland | 19.33 |
| 7 | Sweden | 19.29 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 18.95 |
| 9 | Austria | 17.65 |
| 10 | France | 16.81 |
| 11 | Italy | 13.05 |
| 12 | Spain | 11.02 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 10.47 |
| 14 | Malta | 10.30 |
| 15 | Estonia | 9.38 |
| 16 | Cyprus | 9.30 |
| 17 | Lithuania | 8.82 |
| 18 | Czechia | 8.23 |
| 19 | Greece | 8.00 |
| 20 | Slovakia | 7.72 |
| 21 | Latvia | 7.15 |
| 22 | Poland | 6.90 |
| 23 | Croatia | 6.82 |
| 24 | Portugal | 6.24 |
| 25 | Hungary | 5.73 |
| 26 | Romania | 5.55 |
| 27 | Bulgaria | 4.05 |
| — | European Union (27, from 2020) (reference, not ranked) | 14.91 |
Median, not mean
What households actually take home, 2025
Net (after-tax, after-benefit) annual earnings for 13 modelled household shapes, calculated by Eurostat from Cyprus's tax and benefit rules for a person or couple earning a given share of the average wage – not a measured survey figure, and Cyprus-only.
2024: change in method – not directly comparable with earlier years.
| Household | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| One-earner couple with two children earning 100% of the average earning | 28,808 | 29,650 |
| Two-earner couple with two children, both earning 100% of the average earning | 55,165 | 56,680 |
| Two-earner couple with two children, one earning 100% and the other 33% of the average earning | 38,283 | 39,435 |
| Two-earner couple with two children, one earning 100% and the other 67% of the average earning | 48,221 | 49,576 |
| Two-earner couple without children, both earning 100% of the average earning | 55,165 | 56,680 |
| Two-earner couple without children, one earning 100% and the other 33% of the average earning | 37,387 | 38,477 |
| Single person with two children earning 67% of the average earning | 26,141 | 26,859 |
| Single person without children earning 100% of the average earning | 27,583 | 28,340 |
| Single person without children earning 125% of the average earning | 33,112 | 33,995 |
| Single person without children earning 167% of the average earning | 41,846 | 43,026 |
| Single person without children earning 50% of the average earning | 14,855 | 15,360 |
| Single person without children earning 67% of the average earning | 19,825 | 20,366 |
| Single person without children earning 80% of the average earning | 22,915 | 23,561 |
Change in method, 2024
Modification notice and disclaimer
The counts on this page are published by Statistical Service of Cyprus and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:
- The year-on-year percentage change in mean monthly earnings, computed from two published figures.
Figures on this page derived by Humanity Observatory from CYSTAT data are modifications of the published statistics; the modification is described in the methodology note attached to each figure. CYSTAT does not accept liability for any damage or other consequences arising from the direct or indirect use of the disseminated information, and does not guarantee that published figures will remain unchanged.
Source: Statistical Service of Cyprus (CYSTAT). Reuse terms.
Source: Eurostat.
* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.