Lithuania
Latest Average Wage
+15.9% · 5 years
$58,112
Country Comparison
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
Lithuania
vs
Canada
Latest Average Wage
Canada +16.8%
(vs Lithuania)
5-Year Wage Change
Lithuania +16.2 pts
(vs Canada)
10-Year Wage Change
Lithuania +50.3 pts
(vs Canada)
Overall Price Level
Canada +34.7 index points
(vs Lithuania)
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.
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
Lithuania
Latest Average Wage
+15.9% · 5 years
$58,112
Canada
Latest Average Wage
−0.3% · 5 years
$67,901
Lithuania
10 Years Ago
$37,409 (2015)
Historical Peak
$58,112 (2025)
Latest Wage
$58,112 (2025)
Canada
10 Years Ago
$64,667 (2015)
Historical Peak
$68,434 (2021)
Latest Wage
$67,901 (2025)
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Overall
−34.7 index points
Food
−20.8 index points
Clothing
−23.1 index points
Housing
−49.8 index points
Health
−31.5 index points
Transport
−18.6 index points
Recreation
−30.2 index points
Restaurants & Accommodation
−27.4 index points
Latest Wage Gap
Canada's latest average wage is $67,901 for 2025, about 16.8% higher than Lithuania's $58,112 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. That is roughly $9,789 a year on the same PPP basis.
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Lithuania shows the stronger movement at +5.9%, against +0.2% for Canada. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +15.9% against −0.3%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
Largest Price Gap
Housing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 33.3 for Lithuania against 83.1 for Canada. That is a separation of 49.8 index points on the US=100 scale, with Canada on the higher side and Lithuania on the lower one. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Transport: Lithuania reads 84.4 and Canada 103 for 2024, just 18.6 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Food at 20.8 index points apart. Two readings this close mean the category sits at nearly the same point of the US=100 scale for both.

Canada holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $67,901 for 2025, against Lithuania's $58,112 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 16.8% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $9,789 a year. Both figures are expressed in USD PPP at constant 2025 prices, so they can be set side by side without any further conversion. 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 Lithuania recorded +55.3% and Canada +5.0%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.

The two wage series do not point the same way across the reported horizons. Lithuania sits at the highest point of its series — $58,112 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +55.3%. Canada stands just below its historical high of $68,434 in 2021, only 0.8% away, with a ten-year change of +5.0%. The five-year changes — +15.9% for Lithuania, −0.3% for Canada — resist a single-trend summary and are clearer read side by side. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.

Lithuania's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 51.3, and Canada's reads 86, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Canada sits higher in 8 of the 8 comparable categories. Housing separates the two most: Lithuania reads 33.3 and Canada 83.1, 49.8 index points apart. The two sit closest in Transport (84.4 versus 103), only 18.6 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Lithuania's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 3 of Canada'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.