Average salary in Spain

The gap between €29,540 and €24,497 is not an error but the shape of the data. The mean is pulled up by a few large salaries: the top tenth earns €52,515 and above. The median ignores those outliers, which is why it answers the question «what does an ordinary person earn».

Both figures are gross and for a full year. Take-home pay is noticeably lower: income tax and social contributions come out of this amount, and how much depends on the region, the household and the type of contract. That is a calculation rather than a reference figure, and a gestorgestorA licensed intermediary for administrative procedures: filings, registration, tax.Why it matters. Filing on your behalf is for a gestor or an attorney, not a website. We inform and coordinate; the partner files. does it.

The regional spread is wider than the gap between mean and median. The Basque Country averages €35,170, Catalonia €31,730, Andalusia €26,090, the Canaries €25,120. Along the coast this means one thing: the warmest regions pay the least, while the priciest for housing — Catalonia and the Basque Country — pay the most.

For someone moving, the figure is useful in a pair with the price per square metre. Andalusia's median of €21,557 against €1,581 a square metre in Torre del Mar is one kind of arithmetic; the Basque median of €31,912 against €6,994 in Zarautz is quite another. Both prices, and every other field, are in the place database.

The data comes out once a year and with a lag: the 2024 survey was published in 2026. That is normal for statistics of this kind, but it means the figure always trails the current year by about two.