Salary

This year

2026

OpinionHow I Spend My Money

Money Diaries: It's back to school, end of summer, will you be watching your spending?

The Journal reader

23 Aug

6.5k

gaffs

Dublin workers need 13 years' salary to buy typical home, compared with six in Belfast

3 Jun

10.9k

New Job

Top civil servant Robert Watt to be paid €280,000 a year to lead Dublin City Taskforce

21 Apr

27.8k

working for it

Don’t expect a big bump in your pay packet next year - average pay rises are falling

12 Mar

8.2k

Employment

Pensions auto-enrolment: It kicks in this month, let's recap on how it will all work

Dr Laura Bambrick

16 Jan

7.2k

Last year

2025

salary and syria

Catherine Connolly, presidential hopeful, has given her first press conference — here's what she said

16 Jul 2025

17.7k

BAILOUT CONDITIONS

After 16 years, the banker pay cap of €500,000 is being scrapped

17 Jun 2025

12.2k

start planning now

Financial analyst: Five ways your finances could change in 2025

Ralph Benson

1 Jan 2025

15.1k

All time

New Figures

Quarter of workers earned less than €450 per week in 2023

3 Dec 2024

18.1k

100

job vacancy

'Remuneration is significant': No appetite in Govt to increase €420k salary for next HSE boss

27 Jun 2022

24.8k

budget 2023

Moving income tax credits and bands will improve take-home pay, says Donohoe

15 Jun 2022

27.0k

CMO's department move

Watt report says it is normal practice for minister not to receive details of every secondment

12 Apr 2022

14.8k

tony holohan

'Unusual characteristics' to CMO's new Trinity role, public expenditure minister says

Updated 6 Apr 2022

30.0k

HSE

HSE CEO Paul Reid's pay package totalled €411,777 in 2021

2 Feb 2022

38.4k

pay package

HSE boss Paul Reid’s salary increases to €420,103

10 Mar 2021

66.6k

145

Pay increase

Harris says it's 'important' Oireachtas gets opportunity to scrutinise salary hike for new Dept of Health Sec Gen

18 Jan 2021

22.8k

Pay

Irish rugby players yet to receive a proposal regarding possible salary cuts

12 Jun 2020

5.7k

salary cuts

Premiership players say clubs have treated them with 'absolute disregard'

10 Jun 2020

7.9k

scammers

Businesses warned of new payroll scam targeting employee salaries during busy Christmas season

12 Dec 2019

22.1k

Employment

The average graduate starting salary is now over €30,000

28 Aug 2019

42.1k

Delays

'Absolutely unacceptable': Teachers unsure of when they'll be paid after starting new jobs

17 Aug 2019

45.4k

Salary

Government says €10m boost to Defence Forces pay will make Irish military careers 'more attractive'

Updated 4 Jul 2019

37.4k

160

Money Money Money

Irish workers earn an average of €23 an hour and a yearly salary of €39,000, according to CSO figures

11 Jun 2019

179k

193

Peadar Tóibín: 'Some in Sinn Féin are hurt and angry and are not talking to me at all'

12 Jan 2019

40.4k

Reaction

John Delaney defends Martin O'Neill's eye-watering salary and dismisses TD's concerns

26 Nov 2018

16.0k

On The 42Going nowhere

'His salary will be the same as Sergio Ramos and just behind that of Gareth Bale'

10 Aug 2018

19.9k

Wages

Garda management says it may be 'impossible' to afford wages for the rest of the year

28 Jun 2018

28.4k

WATCH: A career expert tackles our readers questions about asking for a pay rise

2 Mar 2018

830

Law to be changed to allow over 55s apply for job of new Garda Commissioner

6 Feb 2018

12.8k

wage equality

Government to discuss tackling Ireland's gender pay gap with businesses and trade unions

6 Jan 2018

12.6k

generosity

Dortmund star the latest to join Juan Mata in donating 1% of salary to charity

26 Oct 2017

6.9k

equal pay

Secondary school teachers' union recommends rejection of public pay deal

9 Sep 2017

13.9k

RTÉ

'I'm in a privileged position': Claire Byrne and Ryan Tubridy on their salaries and gender balance

25 Aug 2017

40.9k

Flying High

Michael O'Leary's pay package climbed even higher last year

26 Jul 2017

41.2k

Payments

RTÉ says it has not introduced 'secret bonuses' to staff

25 Jul 2017

10.2k

Gender Equality

RTÉ to conduct review of gender equality after salary criticisms

24 Jul 2017

21.5k

it all adds up

Cheaper food, but higher rent: Living wage increases to €11.70 an hour

5 Jul 2017

21.0k

Cutbacks

Donald Trump donates part of salary to National Park Service

4 Apr 2017

12.6k

Show Me The Money

Here is the pay gap between public and private sector workers

15 Mar 2017

43.1k

Contractors

Outsourced Central Bank staff paid an average daily rate of €551

8 Jan 2017

29.1k