Belgium
Latest Average Wage
+6.0% · 5 years
$80,009
Country Comparison
Belgium vs Canada
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Belgium
vs
Canada
$80,0092025
Latest Average Wage
Belgium +17.8%
(vs Canada)
$67,9012025
+6.0%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Belgium +6.3 pts
(vs Canada)
−0.3%2025
+4.3%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Canada +0.7 pts
(vs Belgium)
+5.0%2025
77.52024
Overall Price Level
Canada +8.5 index points
(vs Belgium)
862024
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
Canada
Latest Average Wage
−0.3% · 5 years
$67,901
Wage Milestones
Belgium
10 Years Ago
$76,731 (2015)
Historical Peak
$80,009 (2025)
Latest Wage
$80,009 (2025)
Canada
10 Years Ago
$64,667 (2015)
Historical Peak
$68,434 (2021)
Latest Wage
$67,901 (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
Belgium (BEL)Canada (CAN)
Overall
−8.5 index points
100
77.5vs86
Food
−18.1 index points
100
89.9vs108
Clothing
−29.8 index points
100
88.2vs118
Housing
−8.9 index points
100
74.2vs83.1
Health
−9.4 index points
100
52.8vs62.2
Transport
+11.0 index points
100
114vs103
Recreation
−6.3 index points
100
85.7vs92
Restaurants & Accommodation
+3.4 index points
100
101vs97.6
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Belgium's latest average wage is $80,009 for 2025, about 17.8% higher than Canada's $67,901 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. In annual terms the gap comes to about $12,108 on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Belgium shows the stronger movement at +1.8%, against +0.2% for Canada. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +6.0% against −0.3%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Clothing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 88.2 for Belgium against 118 for Canada. That is a separation of 29.8 index points on the US=100 scale, with Canada on the higher side and Belgium 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: Belgium reads 101 and Canada 97.6 for 2024, just 3.4 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Recreation at 6.3 index points apart. A gap this small leaves the category effectively tied on the shared US=100 scale.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Belgium holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $80,009 for 2025, against Canada's $67,901 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 17.8% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $12,108 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 Belgium recorded +4.3% and Canada +5.0%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
The two wage series do not point the same way across the reported horizons. Belgium sits at the highest point of its series — $80,009 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +4.3%. Canada stands just below its historical high of $68,434 in 2021, only 0.8% away, with a ten-year change of +5.0%. The five-year changes — +6.0% for Belgium, −0.3% for Canada — resist a single-trend summary and are clearer read side by side. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Belgium's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 77.5, and Canada's reads 86, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Canada sits higher in 6 of the 8 comparable categories. Clothing separates the two most: Belgium reads 88.2 and Canada 118, 29.8 index points apart. The two sit closest in Restaurants & Accommodation (101 versus 97.6), only 3.4 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 2 of Belgium's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 3 of Canada's 8. These are index values for 2024, not currency amounts; categories without a reported value on either side are left out of the comparison.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
