Finland
Latest Average Wage
−0.1% · 5 years
$63,053
Country Comparison
Finland vs Germany
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Finland
vs
Germany
$63,0532025
Latest Average Wage
Germany +21.0%
(vs Finland)
$76,2852025
−0.1%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Germany +2.0 pts
(vs Finland)
+2.0%2025
+3.8%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Germany +3.3 pts
(vs Finland)
+7.1%2025
83.82024
Overall Price Level
Finland +12.3 index points
(vs Germany)
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
Finland
10 Years Ago
$60,740 (2015)
Historical Peak
$65,186 (2021)
Latest Wage
$63,053 (2025)
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
Finland (FIN)Germany (DEU)
Overall
+12.3 index points
100
83.8vs71.5
Food
+4.4 index points
100
93.1vs88.7
Clothing
+18.6 index points
100
109vs90.4
Housing
+6.6 index points
100
70.7vs64.1
Health
+24.7 index points
100
75.4vs50.7
Transport
+3.0 index points
100
117vs114
Recreation
+14.4 index points
100
101vs86.6
Restaurants & Accommodation
+11.9 index points
100
103vs91.1
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Germany's latest average wage is $76,285 for 2025, about 21.0% higher than Finland's $63,053 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. Per year, that works out to roughly $13,231 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Germany shows the stronger movement at +1.9%, against +1.1% for Finland. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +2.0% against −0.1%. 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: 75.4 for Finland against 50.7 for Germany. That is a separation of 24.7 index points on the US=100 scale, with Finland on the higher side and Germany 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: Finland reads 117 and Germany 114 for 2024, just 3.0 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Food at 4.4 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Germany holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $76,285 for 2025, against Finland's $63,053 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 21.0% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $13,231 a year. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. 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 Finland recorded +3.8% and Germany +7.1%, 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. Finland is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.1%, though the level remains 3.3% 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%. The five-year changes — −0.1% for Finland, +2.0% for Germany — 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
Finland's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 83.8, and Germany's reads 71.5, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Finland sits higher in 8 of the 8 comparable categories. Health separates the two most: Finland reads 75.4 and Germany 50.7, 24.7 index points apart. The two sit closest in Transport (117 versus 114), only 3.0 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 4 of Finland'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.
