Greece
Latest Average Wage
−0.3% · 5 years
$32,412
Country Comparison
Greece vs Portugal
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Greece
vs
Portugal
$32,4122025
Latest Average Wage
Portugal +38.6%
(vs Greece)
$44,9372025
−0.3%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Portugal +14.2 pts
(vs Greece)
+13.9%2025
−6.0%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Portugal +29.1 pts
(vs Greece)
+23.1%2025
54.72024
Overall Price Level
Portugal +1.0 index points
(vs Greece)
55.72024
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
Portugal
Latest Average Wage
+13.9% · 5 years
$44,937
Wage Milestones
Greece
10 Years Ago
$34,495 (2015)
Historical Peak
$44,174 (2009)
Latest Wage
$32,412 (2025)
Portugal
10 Years Ago
$36,520 (2015)
Historical Peak
$44,937 (2025)
Latest Wage
$44,937 (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
Greece (GRC)Portugal (PRT)
Overall
−1.0 index points
100
54.7vs55.7
Food
+3.5 index points
100
91.1vs87.6
Clothing
−1.5 index points
100
80.9vs82.4
Housing
−4.0 index points
100
40.7vs44.7
Health
−1.4 index points
100
38.1vs39.5
Transport
+1.4 index points
100
93.4vs92
Recreation
0.0 index points
100
66.5vs66.5
Restaurants & Accommodation
+9.6 index points
100
71.3vs61.7
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Portugal's latest average wage is $44,937 for 2025, about 38.6% higher than Greece's $32,412 for 2025 — a relative difference calculated from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $12,525 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Portugal shows the stronger movement at +1.8%, against −0.3% for Greece. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +13.9% against −0.3%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Restaurants & Accommodation shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 71.3 for Greece against 61.7 for Portugal. Measured on the US=100 scale, the two readings for this category are 9.6 index points apart, Greece above Portugal. Index points are not percentages; the two scales answer different questions.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Recreation: Greece reads 66.5 and Portugal 66.5 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Overall at 1.0 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
A clear separation shows in the latest wage figures — Portugal at $44,937 for 2025, and Greece at $32,412 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 38.6% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $12,525 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 Greece recorded −6.0% against Portugal's +23.1%, so the current levels were reached on visibly different long-term paths.
Wage Direction
This pairing shows two wage paths pulling apart rather than tracking each other. Greece continues to drift below its peak, with a one-year change of −0.3% and a five-year change of −0.3%. Portugal sits at the highest point of its series — $44,937 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +23.1%. With Portugal gaining in real terms at +13.9% over five years and Greece at −0.3%, the five-year measures move away from each other rather than closing in. All changes here are measured in real, PPP-adjusted terms, so they describe purchasing-power movement rather than nominal pay increases.
Price Profile
Greece's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 54.7, and Portugal's reads 55.7, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Neither country is uniformly higher: Greece leads in 3 of the 8 comparable categories and Portugal in 4, so the profile splits by category rather than by country. The widest separation is in Restaurants & Accommodation: 71.3 for Greece against 61.7 for Portugal, a gap of 9.6 index points. At the other end, Recreation brings the two closest — 66.5 versus 66.5, a gap of just 0.0 index points. Relative to the US benchmark, Greece reads above 100 in 0 of its 8 reported categories, and Portugal in 0 of its 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
