Mexico
Latest Average Wage
+8.9% · 5 years
$24,463
Country Comparison
Mexico vs Germany
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Mexico
vs
Germany
$24,4632025
Latest Average Wage
Germany +211.8%
(vs Mexico)
$76,2852025
+8.9%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Mexico +6.9 pts
(vs Germany)
+2.0%2025
+9.7%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Mexico +2.6 pts
(vs Germany)
+7.1%2025
50.92024
Overall Price Level
Germany +20.6 index points
(vs Mexico)
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
Mexico
10 Years Ago
$22,304 (2015)
Historical Peak
$27,014 (1994)
Latest Wage
$24,463 (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
Mexico (MEX)Germany (DEU)
Overall
−20.6 index points
100
50.9vs71.5
Food
−0.4 index points
100
88.3vs88.7
Clothing
−18.4 index points
100
72vs90.4
Housing
−21.4 index points
100
42.7vs64.1
Health
−4.7 index points
100
46vs50.7
Transport
−33.4 index points
100
80.6vs114
Recreation
−23.3 index points
100
63.3vs86.6
Restaurants & Accommodation
−26.0 index points
100
65.1vs91.1
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Germany's latest average wage is $76,285 for 2025, about 211.8% higher than Mexico's $24,463 for 2025 — a relative difference calculated from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $51,821 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Germany shows the stronger movement at +1.9%, against +1.3% for Mexico. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Mexico at +8.9% 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
Transport shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 80.6 for Mexico against 114 for Germany. Measured on the US=100 scale, the two readings for this category are 33.4 index points apart, Germany above Mexico. Index points are not percentages; the two scales answer different questions.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Food: Mexico reads 88.3 and Germany 88.7 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Health at 4.7 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Few pairings separate this cleanly — Germany's latest average wage of $76,285 for 2025 stands well above Mexico's $24,463 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 211.8% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $51,821 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 Mexico recorded +9.7% and Germany +7.1%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
The five-year direction is shared here: both series rise, with different momentum on each side. Mexico is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.3%, though the level remains 9.4% below its peak. 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%. The shared direction still leaves room for different speeds: +8.9% for Mexico against +2.0% for Germany, so the distance between the two levels keeps shifting. All changes here are measured in real, PPP-adjusted terms, so they describe purchasing-power movement rather than nominal pay increases.
Price Profile
Mexico's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 50.9, and Germany's reads 71.5, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Germany reads higher in 7 of the 8 comparable categories, so the price profile leans consistently to one side. The widest separation is in Transport: 80.6 for Mexico against 114 for Germany, a gap of 33.4 index points. At the other end, Food brings the two closest — 88.3 versus 88.7, a gap of just 0.4 index points. Relative to the US benchmark, Mexico reads above 100 in 0 of its 8 reported categories, and Germany in 1 of its 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
