Denmark
Latest Average Wage
+1.6% · 5 years
$78,090
Country Comparison
Denmark vs Canada
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Denmark
vs
Canada
$78,0902025
Latest Average Wage
Denmark +15.0%
(vs Canada)
$67,9012025
+1.6%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Denmark +1.9 pts
(vs Canada)
−0.3%2025
+6.9%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Denmark +1.9 pts
(vs Canada)
+5.0%2025
92.12024
Overall Price Level
Denmark +6.1 index points
(vs Canada)
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
Denmark
10 Years Ago
$73,026 (2015)
Historical Peak
$78,090 (2025)
Latest Wage
$78,090 (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
Denmark (DNK)Canada (CAN)
Overall
+6.1 index points
100
92.1vs86
Food
−6.0 index points
100
102vs108
Clothing
+1.0 index points
100
119vs118
Housing
+11.2 index points
100
94.3vs83.1
Health
+1.8 index points
100
64vs62.2
Transport
+27.0 index points
100
130vs103
Recreation
+22.0 index points
100
114vs92
Restaurants & Accommodation
+25.4 index points
100
123vs97.6
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Denmark's latest average wage is $78,090 for 2025, about 15.0% higher than Canada's $67,901 for 2025 — a relative difference calculated from the two reported values. In annual terms the gap comes to about $10,190 on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Denmark shows the stronger movement at +0.3%, against +0.2% for Canada. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +1.6% against −0.3%. 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: 130 for Denmark against 103 for Canada. Measured on the US=100 scale, the two readings for this category are 27.0 index points apart, Denmark above Canada. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Clothing: Denmark reads 119 and Canada 118 for 2024, just 1.0 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Health at 1.8 index points apart. A gap this small leaves the category effectively tied on the shared US=100 scale.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Denmark holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $78,090 for 2025, against Canada's $67,901 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 15.0% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $10,190 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 Denmark recorded +6.9% 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. Denmark sits at the highest point of its series — $78,090 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +6.9%. 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 — +1.6% for Denmark, −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
Denmark's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 92.1, and Canada's reads 86, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Denmark sits higher in 7 of the 8 comparable categories. Transport separates the two most: Denmark reads 130 and Canada 103, 27.0 index points apart. The two sit closest in Clothing (119 versus 118), only 1.0 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 5 of Denmark'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.
