Luxembourg
Latest Average Wage
+8.3% · 5 years
$98,530
Country Comparison
Luxembourg vs Germany
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Luxembourg
vs
Germany
$98,5302025
Latest Average Wage
Luxembourg +29.2%
(vs Germany)
$76,2852025
+8.3%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Luxembourg +6.3 pts
(vs Germany)
+2.0%2025
+11.0%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Luxembourg +4.0 pts
(vs Germany)
+7.1%2025
96.62024
Overall Price Level
Luxembourg +25.1 index points
(vs Germany)
71.52024
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
Germany
Latest Average Wage
+2.0% · 5 years
$76,285
Wage Milestones
Luxembourg
10 Years Ago
$88,737 (2015)
Historical Peak
$98,530 (2025)
Latest Wage
$98,530 (2025)
Germany
10 Years Ago
$71,244 (2015)
Historical Peak
$76,285 (2025)
Latest Wage
$76,285 (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)Germany (DEU)
Overall
+25.1 index points
100
96.6vs71.5
Food
+17.3 index points
100
106vs88.7
Clothing
+9.3 index points
100
99.7vs90.4
Housing
+35.3 index points
100
99.4vs64.1
Health
+26.4 index points
100
77.1vs50.7
Transport
−13.0 index points
100
101vs114
Recreation
+10.5 index points
100
97.1vs86.6
Restaurants & Accommodation
+9.9 index points
100
101vs91.1
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Luxembourg's latest average wage is $98,530 for 2025, about 29.2% higher than Germany's $76,285 for 2025 — computed straight from the two reported values. That is roughly $22,245 a year on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Germany shows the stronger movement at +1.9%, against +1.1% for Luxembourg. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Luxembourg at +8.3% and Germany at +2.0% — 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
Housing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 99.4 for Luxembourg against 64.1 for Germany. Luxembourg sits on the higher side of that 35.3-point spread; Germany reads 35.3 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 Clothing: Luxembourg reads 99.7 and Germany 90.4 for 2024, just 9.3 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Restaurants & Accommodation at 9.9 index points apart. A gap this small leaves the category effectively tied on the shared US=100 scale.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Luxembourg holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $98,530 for 2025, against Germany's $76,285 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 29.2% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $22,245 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 Luxembourg recorded +11.0% and Germany +7.1%, 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. 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%. Germany sits at the highest point of its series — $76,285 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +7.1%. Luxembourg's five-year change of +8.3% outpaces Germany's +2.0% 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
Luxembourg's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 96.6, and Germany's reads 71.5, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Luxembourg sits higher in 7 of the 8 comparable categories. Housing separates the two most: Luxembourg reads 99.4 and Germany 64.1, 35.3 index points apart. The two sit closest in Clothing (99.7 versus 90.4), only 9.3 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 3 of Luxembourg's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 1 of Germany'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.
