Salaries · Spain · 2024
See where every salary falls in Spain, rung by rung. Half of employees earn less than €24,497 gross per year; reaching the top 1% takes roughly €97,500. Data from Spain's INE, 2024.
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Gross annual salary in €5,000 bands. The width of each rung is the number of people earning that amount. The dashed line marks Spain's 2024 minimum wage: €15,876 gross per year.
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Approximate position among employees in Spain in 2024, not adjusted for inflation. Calculations run in your browser: we do not save or send your salary.
Salary source: Spain's INE, Annual Wage Structure Survey 2024. Minimum wage: Royal Decree 145/2024 (BOE). The €5,000 rungs are interpolated from official bands and percentiles; each colour block adds up to the published percentage.
Choose any two years from 2008 to 2024. Width represents the share of employees in €5,000 bands up to €65,000; the upper tail is grouped together. Values are in current euros for each year, so the comparison is not adjusted for inflation.
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Source: Spain's INE, distribution relative to the minimum wage, means and percentiles, and annual notes for the most common salary, 2008–2024 series. Minimum wage: Ministry of Labour. The ≈ symbol marks years for which INE publishes a rounded mode. Bands are interpolated using a monotonic cumulative curve; values from €65,000 upwards are grouped to avoid splitting a tail that the source does not detail for every year.
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Mean gross annual salary by broad occupational group. Because this is an average, pay varies widely within each group; the bar shows where it falls within the overall pyramid.
The bar shows the share of employees whose pay is below that occupational mean. Source: INE, AWSS 2024, mean gross annual salary by major occupational group.
| Gross annual salary band | % of employees | People | Cumulative % |
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All figures come from Spain's INE Annual Wage Structure Survey, 2024 (final data published in 2026): mean €29,540.26, median €24,497.17, most common salary €16,520.18, and percentiles P10 €12,018, P25 €17,457, P75 €36,970 and P90 €52,515.
The broad bands combine INE's table on the share of workers by earnings relative to the minimum wage with the €15,000-band breakdown published by El País in Kiko Llaneras's thread.
INE publishes wide salary bands rather than €5,000 rungs. The rungs are obtained by interpolating the cumulative curve (a monotonic spline) through the official data points, then rescaling each colour block so that it adds up exactly to the published percentage.
The result reproduces an official figure not used to fit the curve: it gives 86.65% below three minimum wages versus INE's 86.63%, and 97.30% below five minimum wages versus the published 97.33%.