Tech, engineers and financial services among best-paid workers

Software engineers were particularly in demand, with salaries up to €110,000, or earning €550 per day contracting, while automation engineers could command up to €100,000 yearly, or €85 an hour. Picture: iStock

The average wage packet was €844 in the last quarter of 2020, an increase of 7.5% from the previous year, official data has shown – with tech workers and engineers among the best paid.

According to Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, average hourly earnings increased by 5.5% between the last quarter of 2019 and the same period in 2020, rising to €25.56.