Mexico
Latest Average Wage
+8.9% · 5 years
$24,463
Country Comparison
Mexico vs Lithuania
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Mexico
vs
Lithuania
$24,4632025
Latest Average Wage
Lithuania +137.5%
(vs Mexico)
$58,1122025
+8.9%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Lithuania +7.0 pts
(vs Mexico)
+15.9%2025
+9.7%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Lithuania +45.7 pts
(vs Mexico)
+55.3%2025
50.92024
Overall Price Level
Lithuania +0.4 index points
(vs Mexico)
51.32024
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
Lithuania
Latest Average Wage
+15.9% · 5 years
$58,112
Wage Milestones
Mexico
10 Years Ago
$22,304 (2015)
Historical Peak
$27,014 (1994)
Latest Wage
$24,463 (2025)
Lithuania
10 Years Ago
$37,409 (2015)
Historical Peak
$58,112 (2025)
Latest Wage
$58,112 (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)Lithuania (LTU)
Overall
−0.4 index points
100
50.9vs51.3
Food
+1.1 index points
100
88.3vs87.2
Clothing
−22.9 index points
100
72vs94.9
Housing
+9.4 index points
100
42.7vs33.3
Health
+15.3 index points
100
46vs30.7
Transport
−3.8 index points
100
80.6vs84.4
Recreation
+1.5 index points
100
63.3vs61.8
Restaurants & Accommodation
−5.1 index points
100
65.1vs70.2
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Lithuania's latest average wage is $58,112 for 2025, about 137.5% higher than Mexico's $24,463 for 2025 — a relative difference calculated from the two reported values. That is roughly $33,648 a year on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Lithuania shows the stronger movement at +5.9%, against +1.3% for Mexico. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +15.9% against +8.9%. 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: 72 for Mexico against 94.9 for Lithuania. Measured on the US=100 scale, the two readings for this category are 22.9 index points apart, Lithuania above Mexico. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Overall: Mexico reads 50.9 and Lithuania 51.3 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Food at 1.1 index points apart. Two readings this close mean the category sits at nearly the same point of the US=100 scale for both.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
The wage levels in this pairing are far apart: Lithuania reports $58,112 for 2025, while Mexico reports $24,463 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 137.5% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $33,648 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 Mexico recorded +9.7% and Lithuania +55.3%, 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. Mexico is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.3%, though the level remains 9.4% below its peak. 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%. Lithuania's five-year change of +15.9% outpaces Mexico's +8.9% 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
Mexico's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 50.9, and Lithuania's reads 51.3, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Neither country is uniformly higher: Mexico leads in 4 of the 8 comparable categories and Lithuania in 3, so the profile splits by category rather than by country. Clothing separates the two most: Mexico reads 72 and Lithuania 94.9, 22.9 index points apart. The two sit closest in Overall (50.9 versus 51.3), only 0.4 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Mexico's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 0 of Lithuania's 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
