The Rise in Wages Negotiated in the Eurozone Cooled in the Second Quarter, According to ECB
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The ECB’s wage indicator predicts that salary growth will accelerate until early 2027, although it will remain well below the previous 2024 peaks.
The rise in wages negotiated in the euro area reached 2.44% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, slowing down from the 2.56% increase observed in the previous three months, according to data published on Friday by the European Central Bank (ECB). In fact, the annual increase in wages negotiated in the euro zone between April and June 2026 was the lowest since the third quarter of last year, when the annual increase was limited to 1.95%. I…
Public information demonstrates a reassuring sign for the bank, at a time when it seeks to contain the inflation driven by the war.
The salaries negotiated in the euro area countries rose 2.4% in the second quarter of the year compared to the same quarter of 2025, according to data published today by the European Central Bank (ECB).
Negotiated wages in the euro area increased by 2.44 percent in the second quarter compared to the same quarter last year, the ECB reports.
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