According to the latest Eurostat data, Slovenia has achieved significant success in the ranking by average annual gross salary, placing tenth among the member states of the European Union.

With an average gross annual salary of 35,133 euros in the past year 2024, the neighboring country positioned itself directly ahead of economically strong countries such as Spain and Italy.

This Slovenian result places it below the European Union average, which last year amounted to 39,808 euros, recording growth of 5.2 percent compared to the previous year. Nevertheless, Slovenia can boast even faster, six-percent growth in gross salary. On the other hand, in Slovenia warnings are often heard from businesspeople, economists, and part of the political scene that the country, due to the high tax burden and social contributions, is positioned far worse when net salaries are taken into account, that is, the amounts that actually reach workers' bank accounts.

The gross annual salary of 35,133 euros was six percent higher than the year before last, and as much as sixteen percent higher than in 2022. This placed Slovenia immediately ahead of the significant European economies of Spain with 33,700 euros and its southern neighbor Italy with 33,523 euros.

The gross annual salary in Slovenia is also convincingly the highest among the European Union member states from Central and Eastern Europe. The closest to it by this criterion was Lithuania with 29,104 euros.

Unfortunately, Croatia, with an average gross annual salary of 23,446 euros, placed nineteenth in the European Union, which is significantly lower than Slovenia. The lowest gross annual salaries were recorded in Bulgaria with 15,387 euros, Greece with 17,954 euros, and Hungary with 18,461 euros.

When compiling this ranking, Eurostat adjusted the gross annual salary data in such a way that for all regularly employed persons, including those who work part-time, it took them into account as if they were employed full-time, in order to eliminate the effect of a smaller number of hours worked. Due to methodological differences in the calculation of gross salary, the Netherlands was not included in this ranking.