United Kingdom
Latest Average Wage
+1.2% · 5 years
$66,299
Country Comparison
United Kingdom vs Finland
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
United Kingdom
vs
Finland
$66,2992025
Latest Average Wage
United Kingdom +5.1%
(vs Finland)
$63,0532025
+1.2%2025
5-Year Wage Change
United Kingdom +1.2 pts
(vs Finland)
−0.1%2025
+3.3%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Finland +0.5 pts
(vs United Kingdom)
+3.8%2025
84.32024
Overall Price Level
United Kingdom +0.5 index points
(vs Finland)
83.82024
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
Finland
Latest Average Wage
−0.1% · 5 years
$63,053
Wage Milestones
United Kingdom
10 Years Ago
$64,199 (2015)
Historical Peak
$66,480 (2019)
Latest Wage
$66,299 (2025)
Finland
10 Years Ago
$60,740 (2015)
Historical Peak
$65,186 (2021)
Latest Wage
$63,053 (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
United Kingdom (GBR)Finland (FIN)
Overall
+0.5 index points
100
84.3vs83.8
Food
−8.0 index points
100
85.1vs93.1
Clothing
−30.1 index points
100
78.9vs109
Housing
+24.7 index points
100
95.4vs70.7
Health
−3.3 index points
100
72.1vs75.4
Transport
−6.0 index points
100
111vs117
Recreation
−10.8 index points
100
90.2vs101
Restaurants & Accommodation
−15.8 index points
100
87.2vs103
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
United Kingdom's latest average wage is $66,299 for 2025, about 5.1% higher than Finland's $63,053 for 2025 — computed straight from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $3,246 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Finland shows the stronger movement at +1.1%, against +0.7% for United Kingdom. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — United Kingdom at +1.2% and Finland at −0.1% — 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
Clothing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 78.9 for United Kingdom against 109 for Finland. Finland sits on the higher side of that 30.1-point spread; United Kingdom reads 30.1 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 Overall: United Kingdom reads 84.3 and Finland 83.8 for 2024, just 0.5 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Health at 3.3 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
United Kingdom's latest PPP-adjusted average wage is $66,299 for 2025, moderately higher than Finland's $63,053 for 2025. In relative terms the gap is 5.1% — calculated from the two reported values — equivalent to about $3,246 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 United Kingdom recorded +3.3% and Finland +3.8%, 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. United Kingdom stands just below its historical high of $66,480 in 2019, only 0.3% away, with a ten-year change of +3.3%. Finland is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.1%, though the level remains 3.3% below its peak. With the five-year changes at +1.2% for United Kingdom and −0.1% for Finland, 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
United Kingdom's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 84.3, and Finland's reads 83.8, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Finland reads higher in 6 of the 8 comparable categories, so the price profile leans consistently to one side. The widest separation is in Clothing: 78.9 for United Kingdom against 109 for Finland, a gap of 30.1 index points. At the other end, Overall brings the two closest — 84.3 versus 83.8, a gap of just 0.5 index points. Relative to the US benchmark, United Kingdom reads above 100 in 1 of its 8 reported categories, and Finland in 4 of its 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
