Median Equivalised Net Income in Slovakia (2025)
Slovakia's Median Equivalised Net Income: 12,990 EUR per person in 2025, +27.7% YoY, roughly 56.6% of the EU-27 average. Eurostat (ILC_DI03), 2010–2025.
Data
| Year | EUR per person | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,990 | +27.7% |
| 2024 | 10,171 | +10.4% |
| 2023 | 9,214 | +4.5% |
| 2022 | 8,819 | +4.1% |
| 2021 | 8,473 | -2.6% |
| 2020 | 8,703 | +7.2% |
| 2019 | 8,119 | +8.8% |
| 2018 | 7,462 | +3.9% |
| 2017 | 7,183 | +3.3% |
| 2016 | 6,951 | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 6,930 | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 6,809 | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 6,737 | -2.7% |
| 2012 | 6,927 | +9.8% |
| 2011 | 6,306 | +3.1% |
| 2010 | 6,117 | n/a |
About this Dataset
Slovakia's median equivalised net income (the typical per-person disposable income after adjusting household income for household size) reached approximately 12,990 EUR in 2025, according to Eurostat's EU-SILC series (ILC_DI03). That marks a 27.7% increase from 10,171 EUR in 2024, by far the sharpest single-year rise across the 2010–2025 series.
For analysts benchmarking purchasing power across European markets, the more useful reference point is Slovakia's position relative to the EU-27 average. In 2010, Slovakia's median income of 6,117 EUR was about 42.1% of the EU-27's 14,521 EUR. That ratio held in a narrow band between roughly 44% and 48% of the EU-27 average from 2013 to 2024, before jumping to 56.6% in 2025 as Slovak income growth sharply outpaced the EU-27's own gain of around 6.3% that year.
Growth has typically been positive but uneven. Slovak income declined in only two of the fifteen years since 2010 — by roughly 2.7% in 2013 and 2.6% in 2021, the latter likely tied to pandemic-related income disruption. Outside those years, gains have typically ranged from low single digits to nearly 10%, as in 2012 (+9.8%) and 2019 (+8.8%). The 2025 increase of +27.7% stands well outside that typical range and more than doubles the next-largest annual gain in the series (+10.4% in 2024), which likely reflects a combination of strong nominal wage growth and possibly a data or methodology update; analysts should treat the most recent figure as provisional pending confirmation in future EU-SILC releases.
Coverage and methodology: Eurostat compiles median equivalised net income annually from EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) microdata, adjusting household disposable income for household size and composition using the modified OECD equivalence scale (first adult = 1, each additional adult 14+ = 0.5, each child under 14 = 0.3). Figures are denominated in current-year euros and are not adjusted for inflation, so cross-year comparisons reflect nominal rather than real purchasing-power changes. The EU-27 aggregate used for comparison is Eurostat's EU27_2020 composition. Slovakia's national statistical office (Štatistický úrad SR) provides the underlying survey data feeding into this series; Eurostat's geo code for Slovakia in this dataset is SK.