Median weekly earnings were €699.28 in 2023, an increase of 4.2% from €670.90 in 2022, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show.
The CSO said median weekly earnings for men were €770.52 last year compared with €623.22 for women.
The economic sectors with the highest median weekly earnings were Information & Communication at €1,356.59 a week, followed by Financial, Insurance & Real Estate at €977.34 a week.
The lowest median weekly earnings in 2023 were recorded for the Accommodation & Food sector, at €364.31.
The 40-49 years age group recorded the highest overall median weekly earnings at €855.39 in 2023, a 4.3% increase on the equivalent figure in 2022 of €819.75.
"Median weekly earnings were recorded at €793.71 for Dublin in 2023, which was 13.5% higher than the median weekly earnings for the State at €699.28 and 40% higher than Donegal which, at €567.04, had the lowest median weekly earnings," said Dr Eimear Heffernan, Statistician in the Earnings Analysis Division of the CSO.
"The largest increase in median weekly earnings was recorded in Longford, where earnings rose by 5.4% from €602.02 in 2022 to €634.62 in 2023," Dr Heffernan said.
When broken down by nationality, Indian nationals had the highest median weekly earnings in 2023 at €883.74, followed by those from the UK at €745.71, and Irish nationals at €728.03 a week.
Indian nationals accounted for 2.6% of total employments, up 0.5 percentage points since 2022, with almost half of those employments recorded in the Human Health & Social Work and Information & Communication sectors.
The median weekly earnings of Irish males were 25.8% higher than those of Irish females.
Indian nationals were the only nationality cohort in which the weekly earnings among females at €908.44 were higher than those of males at €849.68, while the gap between male and female weekly earnings was largest among UK nationals.
