Norway
Latest Average Wage
+6.0% · 5 years
$73,462
Country Comparison
Norway vs Canada
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Norway
vs
Canada
$73,4622025
Latest Average Wage
Norway +8.2%
(vs Canada)
$67,9012025
+6.0%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Norway +6.2 pts
(vs Canada)
−0.3%2025
+9.4%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Norway +4.4 pts
(vs Canada)
+5.0%2025
902024
Overall Price Level
Norway +4.0 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
Norway
10 Years Ago
$67,127 (2015)
Historical Peak
$73,462 (2025)
Latest Wage
$73,462 (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
Norway (NOR)Canada (CAN)
Overall
+4.0 index points
100
90vs86
Food
+5.0 index points
100
113vs108
Clothing
−13.0 index points
100
105vs118
Housing
−22.7 index points
100
60.4vs83.1
Health
+18.4 index points
100
80.6vs62.2
Transport
+23.0 index points
100
126vs103
Recreation
+27.0 index points
100
119vs92
Restaurants & Accommodation
+16.4 index points
100
114vs97.6
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Norway's latest average wage is $73,462 for 2025, about 8.2% higher than Canada's $67,901 for 2025 — computed straight from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $5,561 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Norway shows the stronger movement at +1.6%, against +0.2% for Canada. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +6.0% against −0.3%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Recreation shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 119 for Norway against 92 for Canada. Norway sits on the higher side of that 27.0-point spread; Canada reads 27.0 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 Overall: Norway reads 90 and Canada 86 for 2024, just 4.0 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Food at 5.0 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Norway's latest PPP-adjusted average wage is $73,462 for 2025, moderately higher than Canada's $67,901 for 2025. In relative terms the gap is 8.2% — calculated from the two reported values — equivalent to about $5,561 a year on the same purchasing-power basis. 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 Norway recorded +9.4% 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. Norway sits at the highest point of its series — $73,462 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +9.4%. 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 — +6.0% for Norway, −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
Norway's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 90, and Canada's reads 86, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Norway sits higher in 6 of the 8 comparable categories. Recreation separates the two most: Norway reads 119 and Canada 92, 27.0 index points apart. The two sit closest in Overall (90 versus 86), only 4.0 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 5 of Norway'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.
