🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Baltic Wages Pulse — Q3 2025
The Baltic wage map continues to diverge in 2025 — but this quarter comes with an important methodological twist.
🇱🇹 Lithuania — the highest wages in the Baltics
Average gross wage reached €2,427 (+8.5% y/y, Q3).
Real earnings also rose (+3.8%).
Growth is broad and sector-wide.
🇪🇪 Estonia — slowing momentum
Average gross wage: €2,075 (+5.9% y/y, Q3).
ICT, finance and energy remain the highest-paying sectors, but overall growth has cooled.
🇱🇻 Latvia — latest available data is for Q2 (not Q3)
This is unusual: Latvia released Q2 wage data only on 1 December, a much later date than in previous years.
Average gross wage for Q2 was €1,808 (+8.2% y/y), with Riga region reaching €1,980, the closest Latvia has ever been to the €2,000 mark.
Net wages grew faster than inflation, but full-time equivalent employment continued to fall.
🔎 Regional signal
For the first time in several years, the Baltics show a three-speed wage landscape:
• Lithuania accelerating at the top,
• Estonia decelerating,
• Latvia stable but with delayed publication and a shrinking labour force.
This divergence will shape consumption patterns, labour mobility and tax revenues across the region in 2026. BSM@Baltic Focus
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