{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"de-median-income","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/de-median-income","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/de-median-income/","title":"Median Equivalised Net Income in Germany (2025)","description":"Germany's Median Equivalised Net Income: 28,891 EUR per person in 2025, +4.6% YoY, roughly 126% of the EU-27 average. 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Equivalised income adjusts household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD scale, so the figure reflects typical per-person purchasing power rather than a raw household total."},{"question":"How does Germany's median income compare with the EU-27 average?","answer":"In 2025, Germany's median equivalised net income of roughly 28,891 EUR was about 125.9% of the EU-27 average of approximately 22,939 EUR, a gap of around 5,952 EUR. That premium has typically narrowed since 2020, when Germany's ratio to the EU-27 average peaked at roughly 142% — the gap has been closing gradually even as Germany's absolute income keeps rising."},{"question":"How much has Germany's median income grown since 2010?","answer":"Germany's median equivalised net income rose from about 18,797 EUR in 2010 to approximately 28,891 EUR in 2025 — a cumulative gain of roughly 53.7% over 15 years. Growth was fairly steady through the 2010s before a sharp +10.6% jump in 2020, likely reflecting compositional effects from pandemic-era job losses concentrated among lower earners, followed by a pullback in 2021–2022 and renewed gains from 2023 onward."},{"question":"Why did Germany's median income spike in 2020?","answer":"Germany's median equivalised net income jumped from 23,515 EUR in 2019 to 26,008 EUR in 2020, a +10.6% increase that was the largest single-year move in the series. This likely reflects pandemic-era short-time work schemes (Kurzarbeit) and job losses that were concentrated among lower earners, which can mechanically lift the median even without broad-based wage gains. The level then eased back to 24,946 EUR in 2021 and 24,925 EUR in 2022 as those effects unwound."},{"question":"Has Germany's income premium over the EU average been widening or narrowing?","answer":"Narrowing, typically, since the 2020 peak. Germany's ratio to the EU-27 average rose from about 129% in 2010 to a high of roughly 142% in 2020, then declined in most years since to reach 125.9% in 2025 — its lowest point in the 2010–2025 series. That suggests EU-27 peers have generally been catching up in nominal income terms even as Germany's own income level continues to climb."}]}