CSO reviews 80 years of historical earnings - Real average industrial weekly earnings increase by 319%

Real earnings may have increased by almost 320% in the last 77 years but fell by 7% from 2009 to 2011, the largest fall since the Second World War.

The Central Statistics Office has reviewed historical earnings between 1938-2015 and related them to relevant events in the country’s economic history.

It has presented the data in nominal values and in real values, adjusted for inflation to 2015 prices.