What does Compensation per employee measure?

Compensation per employee (€ per year). Labour productivity and unit labour costs - annual data: Annual; Euro; Compensation per employee

Where does the Compensation per employee data come from?

Eurostat, nama_10_lp_ulc (https://doi.org/10.2908/NAMA_10_LP_ULC)

annual frequency. RAC-EU checks Eurostat every day and adds new data and revisions.

Definition, official source, coverage and calculation method of Compensation per employee. Country ranking →

Source: Eurostat (nama_10_lp_ulc), retrieved 2026-10-17 · View on Eurostat

Dataset	Labour productivity and unit labour costs - annual data (nama_10_lp_ulc)
Time frequency	Annual
Unit of measure	Euro
National accounts indicator (ESA 2010)	Compensation per employee
Permanent identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.2908/NAMA_10_LP_ULC
Eurostat explanatory notes	Explanatory texts (metadata)
Last dataset update at Eurostat	2026-10-09

A higher value indicates a more favourable situation.

Countries with data	34 ·
First period available	1975
Latest period published	2025
Ranking reference period	2025 Latest period for which at least 60% of the countries that publish the indicator have released data, so the ranking is not built on a few early countries.

Year-on-year change: difference from the same period a year earlier (in points for percentages, as a percentage (%) otherwise).
Rank: order among countries with data for the period; the EU27 and euro-area aggregates are not ranked. Ties share the same rank.
Trend: latest figure against the average of the previous periods (12 months, 8 quarters, 4 half-years or 5 years).
IPEF calculations on Eurostat data: changes, ranks and averages are computed among the countries with data for the period. The EU27 and euro-area aggregates are those published by Eurostat and are not ranked.