Finland
Latest Average Wage
−0.1% · 5 years
$63,053
Country Comparison
Finland vs France
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Finland
vs
France
$63,0532025
Latest Average Wage
Finland +4.2%
(vs France)
$60,4832025
−0.1%2025
5-Year Wage Change
France +3.8 pts
(vs Finland)
+3.7%2025
+3.8%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Finland +2.1 pts
(vs France)
+1.7%2025
83.82024
Overall Price Level
Finland +13.4 index points
(vs France)
70.42024
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
France
Latest Average Wage
+3.7% · 5 years
$60,483
Wage Milestones
Finland
10 Years Ago
$60,740 (2015)
Historical Peak
$65,186 (2021)
Latest Wage
$63,053 (2025)
France
10 Years Ago
$59,485 (2015)
Historical Peak
$61,289 (2019)
Latest Wage
$60,483 (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)France (FRA)
Overall
+13.4 index points
100
83.8vs70.4
Food
−0.3 index points
100
93.1vs93.4
Clothing
+22.9 index points
100
109vs86.1
Housing
+2.4 index points
100
70.7vs68.3
Health
+32.0 index points
100
75.4vs43.4
Transport
+3.0 index points
100
117vs114
Recreation
+18.8 index points
100
101vs82.2
Restaurants & Accommodation
+12.9 index points
100
103vs90.1
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Finland's latest average wage is $63,053 for 2025, about 4.2% higher than France's $60,483 for 2025 — computed straight from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $2,570 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
The latest one-year changes are effectively identical: +1.1% for Finland and +1.0% for France. Over five years the picture separates again — −0.1% against +3.7% — so the match is a short-term one. Neither figure is a projection; both come from the reported series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Health shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 75.4 for Finland against 43.4 for France. Finland sits on the higher side of that 32.0-point spread; France reads 32.0 index points lower on the US=100 scale. Index points are not percentages; the two scales answer different questions.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Food: Finland reads 93.1 and France 93.4 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Housing at 2.4 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Finland's latest PPP-adjusted average wage is $63,053 for 2025, moderately higher than France's $60,483 for 2025. In relative terms the gap is 4.2% — calculated from the two reported values — equivalent to about $2,570 a year on the same purchasing-power basis. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. Over ten years Finland recorded +3.8% and France +1.7%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction. The wage milestones above show how each side arrived at its current level, year by year.
Wage Direction
No single shared direction describes this pairing; each side follows its own recent path. Finland is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.1%, though the level remains 3.3% below its peak. France stands just below its historical high of $61,289 in 2019, only 1.3% away, with a ten-year change of +1.7%. With the five-year changes at −0.1% for Finland and +3.7% for France, the horizons are clearer when read side by side rather than folded into one trend statement. All changes here are measured in real, PPP-adjusted terms, so they describe purchasing-power movement rather than nominal pay increases.
Price Profile
Finland's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 83.8, and France's reads 70.4, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Finland reads higher in 7 of the 8 comparable categories, so the price profile leans consistently to one side. The widest separation is in Health: 75.4 for Finland against 43.4 for France, a gap of 32.0 index points. At the other end, Food brings the two closest — 93.1 versus 93.4, a gap of just 0.3 index points. Relative to the US benchmark, Finland reads above 100 in 4 of its 8 reported categories, and France in 1 of its 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
