Income and wealth percentile in Austria
a year per adult, before tax; half of adults in Austria earn less
The wealth ladder in Austria
The middle adult in Austria holds €82,964 in net worth. The top 10% of holders begins at €506,979 and the top 1% at €2,203,691, which is 27 times the middle.
In Austria the middle adult earns €43,586 a year before tax and holds €82,964 in net worth. The top 10% of earners begins at €90,897, and the top 1% of wealth at €2,203,691. Figures are per adult, in EUR.
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Income and net worth per adult in Austria, in EUR.
| The line | Income | Net worth |
|---|---|---|
| Median | €43,586 | €82,964 |
| Average | €57,072 | €224,942 |
| Top 10% | €90,897 | €506,979 |
| Top 1% | €245,430 | €2,203,691 |
| Top 0.1% | €654,145 | €8,656,208 |
| Top 0.01% | €1,712,056 | €34,002,022 |
What the numbers say about Austria
Austrian median income is around €43,600 per adult, with an average of €57,000. Those numbers sit close to Belgium and slightly above Germany on income, supported by a strong social-partnership model that has kept sectoral wage growth steady through cycles. The economy runs on a familiar central-European mix: industrial machinery, automotive components, banking with central-and-eastern European reach, tourism in the Alps, and a thick services layer in Vienna.
The housing situation explains why Austrian household wealth looks lower than wages suggest. Median household net worth per adult is around €83,000, well below Germany and far below France or the UK. Vienna alone houses about 60 percent of its population in subsidised public, cooperative, or limited-profit rental units, a model dating back to the 1920s Red Vienna programme that no other European capital has matched in scale. The result is a city where rents stay manageable for the median resident, but where private-property wealth is much less common than in any peer country. Younger Austrians outside Vienna face rising property prices but a more accessible market than in Munich or Paris.
Wealth concentration at the top is sharper than the median figure suggests. The top 1% threshold for net worth sits above €2.2 million, with the top 0.1% above €8.6 million. Austria has a long tradition of family-owned industrial firms, often headquartered in Linz, Steyr, or Graz, and an older private-banking sector centred in Vienna. The country abolished its inheritance tax in 2008 and has no general wealth tax, which has favoured intergenerational transfer of business and property holdings at the top.
Vienna pulls disproportionately on the top of the income distribution, with the headquarters of OMV, Erste Bank, Raiffeisen, and most other large Austrian firms. Linz and Graz hold significant industrial-sector top incomes. The Alpine tourism regions in Tyrol, Salzburg, and Vorarlberg generate seasonal but high per-capita revenue, with hotel-owning families forming a notable component of regional wealth. Carinthia and Burgenland sit somewhat below the national median.
Two themes shape the next decade. The energy-cost shock since 2022 has hit Austrian industry harder than the headline figures suggest, with several family-owned firms restructuring quietly. And immigration policy has tightened, even though the labour market remains short of skilled workers, especially in healthcare and the building trades.
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Method and sources
- World Inequality DatabasePretax national income per adult and net household wealth per adult.
- World Bank Informal Economy DatabaseInformal output as a share of GDP, the input to the level correction.
How the lines are worked out
The national distribution is fitted as a log-normal body with a Pareto top tail and read at each published point, per adult. Where a country’s own records measure less activity than its output implies, the level of the distribution is lifted toward the implied figure and the spread is left as published: that correction is set out in full on how we measure.
How a percentile is read off it
A percentile is the share of adults at or below a figure. The percentile methodology page states the fit, the anchors and the vintage.
What these figures do not cover
- Per adult, not per household. Couples are counted separately, so household figures run higher.
- Income is gross, before income tax and employee contributions.
- Local currency at the reference rate carried with the record, €1 = $1.08.
- A national figure says nothing about a region or an occupation inside it.
Last updated July 2026.
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