Luxembourg
Latest Average Wage
+8.3% · 5 years
$98,530
Country Comparison
Luxembourg vs Canada
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Luxembourg
vs
Canada
$98,5302025
Latest Average Wage
Luxembourg +45.1%
(vs Canada)
$67,9012025
+8.3%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Luxembourg +8.5 pts
(vs Canada)
−0.3%2025
+11.0%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Luxembourg +6.0 pts
(vs Canada)
+5.0%2025
96.62024
Overall Price Level
Luxembourg +10.6 index points
(vs Canada)
862024
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
Canada
Latest Average Wage
−0.3% · 5 years
$67,901
Wage Milestones
Luxembourg
10 Years Ago
$88,737 (2015)
Historical Peak
$98,530 (2025)
Latest Wage
$98,530 (2025)
Canada
10 Years Ago
$64,667 (2015)
Historical Peak
$68,434 (2021)
Latest Wage
$67,901 (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
Luxembourg (LUX)Canada (CAN)
Overall
+10.6 index points
100
96.6vs86
Food
−2.0 index points
100
106vs108
Clothing
−18.3 index points
100
99.7vs118
Housing
+16.3 index points
100
99.4vs83.1
Health
+14.9 index points
100
77.1vs62.2
Transport
−2.0 index points
100
101vs103
Recreation
+5.1 index points
100
97.1vs92
Restaurants & Accommodation
+3.4 index points
100
101vs97.6
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Luxembourg's latest average wage is $98,530 for 2025, about 45.1% higher than Canada's $67,901 for 2025 — a relative difference calculated from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $30,629 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Luxembourg shows the stronger movement at +1.1%, against +0.2% for Canada. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +8.3% against −0.3%. 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: 99.7 for Luxembourg against 118 for Canada. Measured on the US=100 scale, the two readings for this category are 18.3 index points apart, Canada above Luxembourg. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Transport: Luxembourg reads 101 and Canada 103 for 2024, just 2.0 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Food 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
The wage levels in this pairing are far apart: Luxembourg reports $98,530 for 2025, while Canada reports $67,901 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 45.1% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $30,629 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 Luxembourg recorded +11.0% and Canada +5.0%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
The two wage series do not point the same way across the reported horizons. Luxembourg sits at the highest point of its series — $98,530 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +11.0%. 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 — +8.3% for Luxembourg, −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.
Price Profile
Luxembourg's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 96.6, and Canada's reads 86, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Neither country is uniformly higher: Luxembourg leads in 5 of the 8 comparable categories and Canada in 3, so the profile splits by category rather than by country. Clothing separates the two most: Luxembourg reads 99.7 and Canada 118, 18.3 index points apart. The two sit closest in Transport (101 versus 103), only 2.0 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 3 of Luxembourg's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 3 of Canada's 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
