Austria
Latest Average Wage
+3.3% · 5 years
$78,301
Country Comparison
Austria vs France
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Austria
vs
France
$78,3012025
Latest Average Wage
Austria +29.5%
(vs France)
$60,4832025
+3.3%2025
5-Year Wage Change
France +0.4 pts
(vs Austria)
+3.7%2025
+5.5%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Austria +3.9 pts
(vs France)
+1.7%2025
77.12024
Overall Price Level
Austria +6.7 index points
(vs France)
70.42024
Wages are PPP-adjusted average annual wages; price levels use the United States reference of 100. Years shown are each country's latest reported observation.
How Wages Have Changed
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
France
Latest Average Wage
+3.7% · 5 years
$60,483
Wage Milestones
Austria
10 Years Ago
$74,198 (2015)
Historical Peak
$78,301 (2025)
Latest Wage
$78,301 (2025)
France
10 Years Ago
$59,485 (2015)
Historical Peak
$61,289 (2019)
Latest Wage
$60,483 (2025)
Compare Everyday Price Levels
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Austria (AUT)France (FRA)
Overall
+6.7 index points
100
77.1vs70.4
Food
+0.4 index points
100
93.8vs93.4
Clothing
+9.1 index points
100
95.2vs86.1
Housing
−6.0 index points
100
62.3vs68.3
Health
+19.3 index points
100
62.7vs43.4
Transport
+1.0 index points
100
115vs114
Recreation
+13.6 index points
100
95.8vs82.2
Restaurants & Accommodation
+0.1 index points
100
90.2vs90.1
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Austria's latest average wage is $78,301 for 2025, about 29.5% higher than France's $60,483 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. In annual terms the gap comes to about $17,818 on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, France shows the stronger movement at +1.0%, against +0.8% for Austria. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +3.7% against +3.3%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Health shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 62.7 for Austria against 43.4 for France. That is a separation of 19.3 index points on the US=100 scale, with Austria on the higher side and France on the lower one. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Restaurants & Accommodation: Austria reads 90.2 and France 90.1 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Food at 0.4 index points apart. Two readings this close mean the category sits at nearly the same point of the US=100 scale for both.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Austria holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $78,301 for 2025, against France's $60,483 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 29.5% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $17,818 a year. Because both values already sit on the same USD PPP, constant-2025-price footing, the comparison adjusts for price-level differences between the two economies. For scale, neither series has moved by that much within any single reported year, so the gap is structural rather than the product of one unusual observation. Over ten years Austria recorded +5.5% and France +1.7%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
Both wage series rise over the five-year horizon, though not at the same pace. Austria sits at the highest point of its series — $78,301 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +5.5%. France stands just below its historical high of $61,289 in 2019, only 1.3% away, with a ten-year change of +1.7%. France's five-year change of +3.7% outpaces Austria's +3.3% in magnitude, so the common direction does not mean the two levels are holding a fixed distance. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Austria's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 77.1, and France's reads 70.4, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Neither country is uniformly higher: Austria leads in 5 of the 8 comparable categories and France in 1, so the profile splits by category rather than by country. Health separates the two most: Austria reads 62.7 and France 43.4, 19.3 index points apart. The two sit closest in Restaurants & Accommodation (90.2 versus 90.1), only 0.1 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 1 of Austria's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 1 of France's 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
