Nominal unit labour cost growth

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for nominal unit labour cost growth was 3.30 .

That is a 34.0% fell versus 2024 (5.00).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 83.3% higher.

Across member states, Bulgaria reported the highest value (9.40, 2025) and France the lowest (1.40, 2025) — a ratio of 6.7× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tesem170; every value links back to the canonical source.