Baltic Wages Pulse — Q3 2025

🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 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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