Social services workers’ pay as a percentage of national average pay, 2014, 2018 and 2022 (EU)

Mean hourly pay; average of Member State proportions; NACE 87 and 88 as a proportion of all sectors (excluding public administration, defence, compulsory social security); pay is compared with that of all workers (if compared with ‘other’ workers, the difference is greater). Social services workers are over-represented in countries with better working conditions. The relative pay of social services workers in the EU as a whole may therefore be pushed up by the relative pay in those countries with the greatest numbers of such workers. What is reported, therefore, is the average pay of social services workers in each Member State as a proportion of average pay in that same Member State ‒ and the average of all these national proportions ‒ rather than the average for all social services workers in the EU.