The Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) is conducted by Statistics Austria every four years according to harmonised international standards.
The results for Austria can be found on our website under Structure of Earnings.
The next survey for the reporting year 2026 will take place in 2027.
All member states of the European Union are obliged by European law to carry out the Structure of Earnings Survey. Statistics Austria is commissioned to conduct the survey by decree of the Federal Minister of Economics on the Structure of Earnings Statistics.
Relevant national legal bases for the Structure of Earnings Survey:
Relevant EU legal bases for the Structure of Earnings Survey:
The data privacy information explains the processing of personal data in the Structure of Earnings Survey. The results are published by Statistics Austria in compliance with the legal provisions on confidentiality.
Please note the obligation to provide information in accordance with the provisions of § 9 of the Federal Statistics Act 2000, Federal Law Gazette I No 163/1999, as amended, and § 10 of the Verdienststrukturstatistik-Verordnung 2007, Federal Law Gazette II No 66/2007, as last amended by Federal Law Gazette II No 99/2011.
Statistics Austria relies on the cooperation of each individual enterprise in order to be able to achieve results of the required statistical quality and significance. Please submit the data requested in good time, completely and to the best of your knowledge. Those who fail to comply with the obligation to give information by refusing contribution, or who knowingly provides incomplete information or information that does not correspond to the best of their knowledge, commits an administrative offence and is subject to an administrative penal procedure under § 66 of the Federal Statistics Act 2000.
We are aware that the survey is an additional burden for your company. However, we endeavour to keep the effort for you as low as possible. In accordance with the Federal Statistics Act 2000, administrative data were used as far as possible. In this way, we are able to cover more than half of the characteristics with administrative data. The questionnaire therefore only contains those characteristics that cannot be taken from the business register of Statistics Austria or your reports to the tax office or social insurance.
You will find detailed information and assistance for your report in the explanations for the Structure of Earnings Survey 2022.
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