The ECB wage tracker with unsmoothed one-off payments indicates average negotiated wage growth of 4.8 per cent in 2024 and 2.8 per cent in 2025.
The steeply downward trend of the forward-looking wage tracker in 2025 partly reflects the mechanical impact of large one-off payments (that were paid in 2024, but drop out in 2025) and the front-loaded nature of wage increases in some sectors in 2024, an ECB release said.
The wage tracker excluding one-off payments indicates negotiated wage growth of 4.1 per cent in 2024 and 3.9 per cent in 2025.
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