Czechia
Latest Average Wage
+3.0% · 5 years
$43,607
Country Comparison
Czechia vs United States
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Czechia
vs
United States
$43,6072025
Latest Average Wage
United States +99.5%
(vs Czechia)
$86,9772025
+3.0%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Czechia +0.9 pts
(vs United States)
+2.1%2025
+22.2%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Czechia +9.2 pts
(vs United States)
+13.0%2025
52.92024
Overall Price Level
United States +47.1 index points
(vs Czechia)
1002024
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
United States
Latest Average Wage
+2.1% · 5 years
$86,977
Wage Milestones
Czechia
10 Years Ago
$35,686 (2015)
Historical Peak
$43,607 (2025)
Latest Wage
$43,607 (2025)
United States
10 Years Ago
$76,999 (2015)
Historical Peak
$86,977 (2025)
Latest Wage
$86,977 (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
Czechia (CZE)United States (USA)
Overall
−47.1 index points
100
52.9vs100
Food
−24.8 index points
100
75.2vs100
Clothing
−15.5 index points
100
84.5vs100
Housing
−41.9 index points
100
58.1vs100
Health
−74.7 index points
100
25.3vs100
Transport
−13.5 index points
100
86.5vs100
Recreation
−35.0 index points
100
65vs100
Restaurants & Accommodation
−39.5 index points
100
60.5vs100
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
United States' latest average wage is $86,977 for 2025, about 99.5% higher than Czechia's $43,607 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. In annual terms the gap comes to about $43,370 on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Czechia shows the stronger movement at +3.9%, against +1.7% for United States. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +3.0% against +2.1%. 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: 25.3 for Czechia against 100 for United States. That is a separation of 74.7 index points on the US=100 scale, with United States on the higher side and Czechia 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 Transport: Czechia reads 86.5 and United States 100 for 2024, just 13.5 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Clothing at 15.5 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: United States reports $86,977 for 2025, while Czechia reports $43,607 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 99.5% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $43,370 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 Czechia recorded +22.2% and United States +13.0%, 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. Czechia sits at the highest point of its series — $43,607 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +22.2%. United States sits at the highest point of its series — $86,977 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +13.0%. Czechia's five-year change of +3.0% outpaces United States' +2.1% 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
Czechia's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 52.9, and United States' reads 100, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: United States sits higher in 8 of the 8 comparable categories. Health separates the two most: Czechia reads 25.3 and United States 100, 74.7 index points apart. The two sit closest in Transport (86.5 versus 100), only 13.5 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Czechia's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 0 of United States' 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.
