Israel
Latest Average Wage
+5.8% · 5 years
$57,426
Country Comparison
Israel vs United States
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Israel
vs
United States
$57,4262025
Latest Average Wage
United States +51.5%
(vs Israel)
$86,9772025
+5.8%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Israel +3.7 pts
(vs United States)
+2.1%2025
+19.8%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Israel +6.8 pts
(vs United States)
+13.0%2025
93.12024
Overall Price Level
United States +6.9 index points
(vs Israel)
1002024
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 States
Latest Average Wage
+2.1% · 5 years
$86,977
Wage Milestones
Israel
10 Years Ago
$47,933 (2015)
Historical Peak
$57,426 (2025)
Latest Wage
$57,426 (2025)
United States
10 Years Ago
$76,999 (2015)
Historical Peak
$86,977 (2025)
Latest Wage
$86,977 (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 States (USA)
Overall
−6.9 index points
100
93.1vs100
Food
+24.0 index points
100
124vs100
Clothing
+6.0 index points
100
106vs100
Housing
−6.1 index points
100
93.9vs100
Health
−16.7 index points
100
83.3vs100
Transport
+9.0 index points
100
109vs100
Recreation
−0.8 index points
100
99.2vs100
Restaurants & Accommodation
+30.0 index points
100
130vs100
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
United States' latest average wage is $86,977 for 2025, about 51.5% higher than Israel's $57,426 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. In annual terms the gap comes to about $29,551 on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, United States shows the stronger movement at +1.7%, against +0.5% for Israel. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Israel at +5.8% and United States at +2.1% — 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
Restaurants & Accommodation shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 130 for Israel against 100 for United States. That is a separation of 30.0 index points on the US=100 scale, with Israel on the higher side and United States 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 Recreation: Israel reads 99.2 and United States 100 for 2024, just 0.8 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Clothing at 6.0 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
The wage levels in this pairing are far apart: United States reports $86,977 for 2025, while Israel reports $57,426 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 51.5% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $29,551 a year. Because both values already sit on the same USD PPP, constant-2025-price footing, the comparison adjusts for price-level differences between the two economies. 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 States +13.0%, 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 States sits at the highest point of its series — $86,977 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +13.0%. Israel's five-year change of +5.8% outpaces United States' +2.1% 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 States' reads 100, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Neither country is uniformly higher: Israel leads in 4 of the 8 comparable categories and United States in 4, so the profile splits by category rather than by country. Restaurants & Accommodation separates the two most: Israel reads 130 and United States 100, 30.0 index points apart. The two sit closest in Recreation (99.2 versus 100), only 0.8 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 4 of Israel's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 0 of United States' 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
