Israel
Latest Average Wage
+5.8% · 5 years
$57,426
Country Comparison
Israel vs United Kingdom
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Israel
vs
United Kingdom
$57,4262025
Latest Average Wage
United Kingdom +15.5%
(vs Israel)
$66,2992025
+5.8%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Israel +4.6 pts
(vs United Kingdom)
+1.2%2025
+19.8%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Israel +16.5 pts
(vs United Kingdom)
+3.3%2025
93.12024
Overall Price Level
Israel +8.8 index points
(vs United Kingdom)
84.32024
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
United Kingdom
Latest Average Wage
+1.2% · 5 years
$66,299
Wage Milestones
Israel
10 Years Ago
$47,933 (2015)
Historical Peak
$57,426 (2025)
Latest Wage
$57,426 (2025)
United Kingdom
10 Years Ago
$64,199 (2015)
Historical Peak
$66,480 (2019)
Latest Wage
$66,299 (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
Israel (ISR)United Kingdom (GBR)
Overall
+8.8 index points
100
93.1vs84.3
Food
+38.9 index points
100
124vs85.1
Clothing
+27.1 index points
100
106vs78.9
Housing
−1.5 index points
100
93.9vs95.4
Health
+11.2 index points
100
83.3vs72.1
Transport
−2.0 index points
100
109vs111
Recreation
+9.0 index points
100
99.2vs90.2
Restaurants & Accommodation
+42.8 index points
100
130vs87.2
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
United Kingdom's latest average wage is $66,299 for 2025, about 15.5% higher than Israel's $57,426 for 2025 — computed straight from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $8,873 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, United Kingdom shows the stronger movement at +0.7%, against +0.5% for Israel. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Israel at +5.8% and United Kingdom at +1.2% — 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
Restaurants & Accommodation shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 130 for Israel against 87.2 for United Kingdom. Israel sits on the higher side of that 42.8-point spread; United Kingdom reads 42.8 index points lower on the US=100 scale. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Housing: Israel reads 93.9 and United Kingdom 95.4 for 2024, just 1.5 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Transport at 2.0 index points apart. A gap this small leaves the category effectively tied on the shared US=100 scale.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
United Kingdom holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $66,299 for 2025, against Israel's $57,426 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 15.5% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $8,873 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 Israel recorded +19.8% and United Kingdom +3.3%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
Both wage series rise over the five-year horizon, though not at the same pace. Israel sits at the highest point of its series — $57,426 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +19.8%. 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%. Israel's five-year change of +5.8% outpaces United Kingdom's +1.2% in magnitude, so the common direction does not mean the two levels are holding a fixed distance. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Israel's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 93.1, and United Kingdom's reads 84.3, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Israel sits higher in 6 of the 8 comparable categories. Restaurants & Accommodation separates the two most: Israel reads 130 and United Kingdom 87.2, 42.8 index points apart. The two sit closest in Housing (93.9 versus 95.4), only 1.5 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 4 of Israel's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 1 of United Kingdom'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.
