Chile
Latest Average Wage
+6.1% · 5 years
$40,626
Country Comparison
Chile vs Germany
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Chile
vs
Germany
$40,6262023
Latest Average Wage
Germany +87.8%
(vs Chile)
$76,2852025
+6.1%2023
5-Year Wage Change
Chile +4.1 pts
(vs Germany)
+2.0%2025
−6.1%2023
10-Year Wage Change
Germany +13.2 pts
(vs Chile)
+7.1%2025
42.92024
Overall Price Level
Germany +28.6 index points
(vs Chile)
71.52024
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
Germany
Latest Average Wage
+2.0% · 5 years
$76,285
Wage Milestones
Chile
10 Years Ago
$43,267 (2013)
Historical Peak
$45,670 (2016)
Latest Wage
$40,626 (2023)
Germany
10 Years Ago
$71,244 (2015)
Historical Peak
$76,285 (2025)
Latest Wage
$76,285 (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
Chile (CHL)Germany (DEU)
Overall
−28.6 index points
100
42.9vs71.5
Food
−3.9 index points
100
84.8vs88.7
Clothing
−12.9 index points
100
77.5vs90.4
Housing
−34.5 index points
100
29.6vs64.1
Health
−24.9 index points
100
25.8vs50.7
Transport
−47.2 index points
100
66.8vs114
Recreation
−25.9 index points
100
60.7vs86.6
Restaurants & Accommodation
−30.0 index points
100
61.1vs91.1
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Germany's latest average wage is $76,285 for 2025, about 87.8% higher than Chile's $40,626 for 2023 — computed straight from the two reported values. That is roughly $35,658 a year on the same PPP basis. The two figures come from different reference years.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Germany shows the stronger movement at +1.9%, against +1.3% for Chile. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Chile at +6.1% and Germany at +2.0% — so the latest year is not the whole story. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Transport shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 66.8 for Chile against 114 for Germany. Germany sits on the higher side of that 47.2-point spread; Chile reads 47.2 index points lower on the US=100 scale. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Food: Chile reads 84.8 and Germany 88.7 for 2024, just 3.9 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Clothing at 12.9 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
The wage levels in this pairing are far apart: Germany reports $76,285 for 2025, while Chile reports $40,626 for 2023. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 87.8% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $35,658 a year. Both figures are expressed in USD PPP at constant 2025 prices, so they can be set side by side without any further conversion. 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 Chile recorded −6.1% against Germany's +7.1%, so the current levels were reached on visibly different long-term paths.
Wage Direction
Both wage series rise over the five-year horizon, though not at the same pace. Chile is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.3%, though the level remains 11.1% below its peak. Germany sits at the highest point of its series — $76,285 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +7.1%. Chile's five-year change of +6.1% outpaces Germany's +2.0% 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
Chile's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 42.9, and Germany's reads 71.5, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Germany sits higher in 8 of the 8 comparable categories. Transport separates the two most: Chile reads 66.8 and Germany 114, 47.2 index points apart. The two sit closest in Food (84.8 versus 88.7), only 3.9 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Chile's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 1 of Germany'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.
