Full-time employees’ average gross earnings were HUF 740,600 and average net earnings reached HUF 519,900 in August 2026. Average gross earnings grew by 8.4%, net average earnings increased by 10.0% and real earnings were 8.6% higher than a year earlier.
The increase in net average earnings exceeded the growth in the gross average earnings partly due to the expansion of family tax allowance, and the tax allowance for mothers. Median gross earnings were HUF 611,400, and median net earnings were HUF 433,400, surpassing the value for the same period of the previous year by 8.5% and 9.9%, respectively.
Full-time employees’ average gross earnings were HUF 740,600, which was 8.4% higher than a year earlier.
Average net earnings reached HUF 519,900, being 10.0% higher than in August 2025. The growth in the net earnings was considerably impacted by the higher amount of family tax allowance introduced as of 1 January 2026, the personal income tax exemption for mothers raising three children introduced from 1 October 2025 and for mothers under 40 raising two children introduced from 1 January 2026, and the expansion of the tax allowance for mothers under 30.
Regular average gross earnings (without premiums and one-month bonuses) were HUF 710,600, being 7.6% higher than in the same period of the previous year. Regular average gross earnings amounted to HUF 704,200 in the business sector, HUF 721,400 in the budgetary sector and HUF 742,000 in the non-profit sector, increasing by 7.2%, 8.9% and 7.9%, respectively, over a year.
Real earnings were up by 8.6%, along with a 1.3% increase in consumer prices compared to the same period of the previous year.
Median gross earnings were HUF 611,400, being 8.5% above the one year earlier level.
Median net earnings reached HUF 433,400, surpassing the value for the same period of the previous year by 9.9%.