Nominal unit labour cost growth

In 2024, Italy's nominal unit labour cost growth increased by 15.8% compared to 2023, reaching 4.40.

Italy accounts for 88.0% of the EU-27 total of 5.00.

Italy ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 193.3% (from 1.50 in 2019).

Source: Eurostat dataset tesem170, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.