About our salary estimates
Reference data: Statistik Austria earnings survey 2022, updated to 2025 with the collective-pay index
When an employer leaves the salary out, we may show an estimated gross annual range marked with “~”. It is a rough guide, not an offer from the employer. A salary stated in the ad itself always takes precedence and is never overwritten by an estimate.
The official data we use
The estimate is anchored to Statistik Austria's Verdienststrukturerhebung 2022: the median gross annual earnings of full-time employees (all 14 payments included) for the whole economy, by industry (ÖNACE) and by occupation group (ÖISCO-08). These 2022 figures are raised to 2025 with the Statistik Austria collective-pay index (Tariflohnindex, about +21%). Austria has no statutory minimum wage; the floor is the collective-agreement minimum, which the Austrian Economic Chamber puts at no less than €1,900 gross per month across almost all agreements, i.e. €26,600 per year at 14 payments. The survey covers private-sector firms with 10+ employees, so agriculture and public administration fall back to the whole-economy median.
How the estimate is derived
A language model is given the job title, its description, the employer and the official figures above. It decides which occupation group the role belongs to, starts from that median and adjusts for seniority, the employer and any pay signal in the text. The estimate never falls below the collective-agreement floor, and implausible values (for example a monthly figure entered as yearly) are discarded. If the model has no sensible basis it declines and the field stays empty.
What it is not
The figure is not an offer from the employer and carries no guarantee. Real pay depends on the applicable collective agreement, experience and negotiation. When an employer states a salary, we show exactly their figure.