Where do you rank?
Pick a country and occupation, enter your gross monthly salary, and see where you sit in the pay distribution, from the bottom 10% to the top 10%.
You earn more than roughly 11% of full-time employees, Professionals (Germany).
Distribution data is gross monthly pay for full-time employees from the 2022 Structure of Earnings Survey (Eurostat). Percentile positions between the published points are linear estimates.
How the estimated salary position works
The salary-rank tool places gross monthly pay between three published distribution anchors for a broad ISCO-08 occupation group: the 10th percentile, median and 90th percentile. It is an interpolation, not a complete percentile distribution.
Interpolation method
Pay at the 10th percentile is mapped to position 10, median pay to position 50 and the 90th percentile to position 90. Values between P10 and the median, and between the median and P90, are interpolated linearly. A salary halfway between the median and P90 is therefore reported around the 70th percentile.
Values below P10 are described as the bottom 10% and values above P90 as the top 10%. PayScope does not extrapolate a more exact position into the tails because the source provides no distribution shape beyond those anchors.
Making a fair comparison
Enter gross monthly employee earnings before tax and social contributions. Choose the closest broad occupation group and compare the survey period shown on the page. Seniority, specialist skills, company size and region can create large differences within the same group.
Important limitations
- The Structure of Earnings Survey covers employees and is not a live job-market salary feed.
- Broad occupation groups combine roles with different responsibilities and experience levels.
- Country coverage and reference years vary; missing distributions are excluded rather than imputed.
Primary source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses_monthly).
Frequently asked questions
How is the percentile estimated?
Your gross pay is placed inside the P10-median-P90 range Eurostat publishes for the occupation. Between those anchor points the position is interpolated linearly; below P10 you are in the bottom 10%, above P90 in the top 10%.
Why enter gross, not net?
The Structure of Earnings Survey reports gross monthly pay for full-time employees, so the comparison only works like-for-like with your gross salary before tax and social contributions.
How current is the distribution?
The Structure of Earnings Survey runs every four years; the latest published distribution is from 2022. Pay levels have risen since, so recent salaries may rank slightly higher than shown.