Growth in household disposable income slows to 0.7 per cent

In the current CBS series, growth for the first quarter of 2026 is still 2.2 per cent. For the second quarter, it is 0.7 per cent: income is therefore growing more slowly. The quarterly figures are provisional. [1] [2]

CBS calculates this growth figure by taking four quarters together each time. The latest result compares July 2025 to June 2026 with July 2024 to June 2025. The increase of 0.7 per cent therefore does not relate solely to April to June, nor is it a comparison with the previous quarter. [4]

Higher pay and benefits

According to CBS, income growth is mainly due to higher employee compensation and higher social benefits. In the second quarter, total employee compensation, without adjustment for inflation, was 5 per cent higher than a year earlier. Collectively agreed wages were 4.3 per cent higher, and the number of employee jobs increased by 1.1 per cent. The total amount of social benefits received rose by 7.4 per cent. [1]

This was offset by higher taxes and social contributions paid. Mixed income, which also includes remuneration for the work of self-employed people, fell by 2.2 per cent. This does not mean that every self-employed person earned that much less: this, too, is a total amount for the sector. [1] [3]