Irish workers’ have seen a modest pay increase over the past 12 months.
Weekly earnings have crept up by 3.5% since last year.
The average wage, before tax, stood at €784 in the final quarter of 2019.
This is marginally higher than €757 a year earlier, according to the latest Central Statistics Office figures.
It’s been a steady climb over the past five years as weekly pay, before decuctions, stood at €702 in 2014.
This represents an 11.6% jump to today’s rates.
All sectors enjoyed a hike in average weekly earnings over this period.
The increases ranged between 4% in the Financial, Insurance and Real Estate sector to 23.4% in the Administrative and support services.
The big bucks are in the Information and communication sector, with a standard weekly salary of €1,241.
But the lowest paid workers are in the accomodation and services sector where the gross pay is less than a third of that figure at just €381.
Increments are coming quicker to the private sector with a 3.5% rise, with an increase of 2.7% in the public service.
This brings the average weekly wage in the private sector up from €699 to €723.
And there has been a small surge from from €962 to €988 in the public sector during that same period of time.
Guards have the highest average weekly earnings in the public sector at €1,254.
While teachers earn the most per hour, with a gross hourly rate of €41, while also working the least per week, 24.6 hours.
Across the board average hourly earnings spiked by 3.6%, rising from €23.33 to €24.17.
The Arts, entertainment, recreation sector showed the largest increase of 5.8%, rising from €17.69 to €18.72 in the space of a year.
The Transportation and storage sector recorded the only annual decrease in the year, falling by 0.2%
Public sector average hourly earnings rose 2.6% from €29.57 to €30.33.
Private sector rates increased 3.6% from €21.54 to €22.32 over the same period.
Workers at bigger firms were most likely to make gains.
Businesses with less than 50 employees showed an annual increase of 1.5% in average hourly earnings from €19.71 to €20.
But in firms with between 50 and 250 employees recorded an increase of 4.6%, from €21.27 to €22.24 per hour over the same period.
Public sector average hourly earnings rose 2.6% from €29.57 to €30.33.
