In the 3^rd quarter of 2025

Average gross monthly earnings per worker increased by 1.3% year-on-year, influenced by the payment of the insularity allowance at different moments in 2024 and 2025

The Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM) releases the provisional results for the 3^rd quarter of 2025 regarding the average monthly earnings per worker (per job) of entities with tax headquarters in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM).

In the 3^rd quarter of 2025, the average total gross monthly earnings per worker (per job) increased by 1.3% compared with the same quarter of 2024, standing at 1 473 euros. Regular earnings and base earnings rose by 4.7% and 4.4%, respectively, reaching 1 308 and 1 256 euros. This discrepancy in the year-on-year changes of these indicators reflects the difference in the timing of the payment of the insularity allowance — a component included only in total earnings and exclusively applicable to the public sector — which in 2024 was paid in September, whereas in 2025 it was mostly paid in March.

It should be noted that in July and August 2025, the year-on-year change in average monthly earnings per worker stood at 4.9% and 3.8%, respectively, figures closer to the rate observed at the end of the 2^nd quarter of the year (5.6%).

In real terms — that is, taking into account the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the Region — average total earnings per worker decreased by 1.8%, while regular earnings increased by 1.4% and base earnings rose by 1.2% compared with the 3^rd quarter of 2024.

These results cover 112.0 thousand jobs (+4.7% compared with the 3^rd quarter of 2024), corresponding to beneficiaries of Social Security and subscribers of the Caixa Geral de Aposentações employed by entities with tax headquarters in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM).

In year-on-year terms, noteworthy increases in total earnings were observed in “Arts, entertainment, sports and recreation activities” (section R; +10.7%), “Financial and insurance activities” (section K; +9.4%), enterprises with 10 to 19 workers (+7.9%), the private sector (+4.6%), tradable-sector enterprises (+8.0%), enterprises classified as “Knowledge-intensive financial services” (+9.4%) and enterprises in the “Medium-technology manufacturing” category (+9.5%). A decrease of 8.7% in “Human health and social work activities” (section Q) and a reduction of 4.3% in the public sector were also recorded, both declines associated with the aforementioned shift in the timing of the insularity allowance payment between 2024 and 2025.

In the 3^rd quarter of 2025, the average total gross monthly earnings per worker in the Region amounted to 1 473 euros, compared with 1 615 euros in the Country as a whole. The national year-on-year change, in nominal terms, stood at 5.3%, and in real terms, at 2.6%.

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